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RFE/RL interviews Afghan Ambassador to the U.S. Eklil Hakimi during the NATO summit in Chicago…[read more]
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U.S. General John Allen tells @RadioAzadi: ”We are not going to abandon Afghanistan again. The United States is not going to abandon Afghanistan and the international community is not going to abandon Afghanistan. That is the purpose of the Strategic Partnership Agreement.”
- U.S. General John Allen, the NATO-ISAF commander in Afghanistan, speaking Tuesday (April 17) in an interview with RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan in Brussels.
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@AzadiRadio interviews #NATO #ISAF spokesman Jacobson on protests against Koran burning: “It is a clear mistake. It is just not understanding what it meant to take religious material for destruction and in particular, to have Korans involved in it. It is a very clear mistake.”
Photo by Radio Azadi’s Sayaed Jan Sabawoon.
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Five Reported Dead In Afghan Koran Protests
Photos by Radio Azadi’s Daud Wafa and Sayaed Jan Sabawoon.
Radio Azadi’s correspondent in Jalalabad says the shots were fired by members of the Afghan National Police who were trying to contain the surging crowd.
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Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, a noted author on Taliban and Al-Qaeda militancy in the region, speaking today in a phone interview with RFE/RL’s Abubakar Siddique about a classified NATO report obtained by news organizations in Afghanistan saying Taliban and other militants receive support from elements within Pakistan’s intelligence services.
“It’s very well known amongst NATO militaries [and] amongst the U.S. military. I was told by senior American generals that they approached [U.S.] President [George W.] Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld back in 2005 about the support that the Taliban were getting from Pakistan. But it was ignored by Bush at that time. So this is nothing new, I think, for anyone. But the fact that it should be leaked and that it should come in such language, I suppose, is going to create quite a furor.” -
We are the Afghan people’s friends, and we are Afghan people’s allies, but I can’t accept that Afghan soldiers could fire on French soldiers. If the security conditions are not clearly established, then the question of an anticipated withdrawn of the French army will be raised.French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaking today, January 20. Sarkozy has announced that France is suspending all joint combat operations and training programs for Afghan troops after an Afghan National Army soldier apparently shot and killed four French soldiers and wounded many others in eastern Afghanistan…[READ MORE]
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U.S. Probe Cites Mistakes In Deadly Pakistan Air Strike
A young child holds a placard while posing with tribesmen as they stand on a NATO flag during a demonstration in Islamabad following the deadly air strike.
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![Pakistanis watch fuel trucks that were set ablaze in the Bolan district of Baluchistan Province on December 12
Islamabad Says Blockade On NATO Will Last Until ‘Rules Of Engagement’ Changed
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani says his country’s blockade of NATO supply lines into Afghanistan — ordered in retaliation for a deadly NATO helicopter attack in Pakistan — is likely to stay in place for weeks…[READ MORE]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw3cz7s97G1qkgi6go1_500.jpg)
Pakistanis watch fuel trucks that were set ablaze in the Bolan district of Baluchistan Province on December 12
Islamabad Says Blockade On NATO Will Last Until ‘Rules Of Engagement’ Changed
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani says his country’s blockade of NATO supply lines into Afghanistan — ordered in retaliation for a deadly NATO helicopter attack in Pakistan — is likely to stay in place for weeks…[READ MORE]
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Sampling Pakistani Views Ahead Of Bonn Conference
Ahead of today’s Bonn’s Conference on Afghanistan’s future, RFE/RL Radio Mashaal’s Daud Khattak sat down with a number of prominent Pakistani intellectual and political figures to discuss prospects for security and stability in Afghanistan and the region. Watch the video interviews with some of those experts here.
In the video above, Senator Afrasiab Khattak, provincial chief of the Awami National Party (ANP), spoke about peace in Afghanistan and the Bonn Conference:
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Photo Of The Day
Children take part in a protest against NATO in Lahore, Pakistan.
