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The Talibans Silent Partner |
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WHEN the American-led coalition invaded Afghanistan five years ago, pessimists warned that we would soon find ourselves in a similar situation to what Soviet forces faced in the 1980s. They were wrong but only about the timing. The military operation was lean and lethal, and routed the Taliban government in a few weeks. But now, just two years after Hamid Karzai was elected as the countrys first democratic leader, the coalition finds itself, like its Soviet predecessors, in control of major cities and towns, very weak in the villages, and besieged by a shadowy insurgency that uses Pakistan as its rear base.
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Zaeef's book review: 'Your Excellency, you are no more Excellency' |
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Former Afghan ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef has disclosed the naked violation of diplomacy, brotherhood, democracy and hospitality not in an un-Islamic country but in the neighbouring Pakistan, that the rulers called a fort of Islam. |
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Afghan invasion entering its inevitable end game |
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THERE have been four foreign invasions of Afghanistan in less than 200 years 1839, 1878, 1979 and 2001.
The first two were British, and unashamedly imperialist, the third was Soviet and the last was American.
But all four invasions were doomed to fail (although the last still has some time to run).
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New Pashto channel from August 14 |
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Dawn, Peshawar --- The Pakistan Television Corporation is launching a new Pashto channel from its Peshawar centre in August.
"The new channel is likely to be launched on Aug 14 by the president or the prime minister. Only a go-ahead from the top brass is awaited," said an official. According to him, the estimated annual expenditure of the channel -- Abaseen -- will be Rs350 million.
"The channel will air programmes in local languages for rural and urban communities," said a feasibility report sent to the PTV headquarters in Islamabad.
It requested the PTV headquarters to decentralise approval of programmes to ensure smooth running of the new channel and unhindered production.
The report said that according to the initial plan, 42 programmes would be aired every week.
It also asked the headquarters to create 182 new posts for the channel.
The government had planned long ago to launch four channels in regional languages. Now, the government is likely to first launch the Abaseen channel that will be watched in more than 25 countries, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
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