30 June 2010

Baradar's Extradition to Afghanistan Likely, DAWN, 30 June 2010

EXCERPT: "Furthering its efforts to help the Karzai government reach a negotiated settlement with Taliban and other warring factions, Pakistan indicated on Tuesday that it might extradite Mullah Baradar and other senior Afghan militant commanders to Afghanistan. Afghanistan had recently made a renewed call for extradition of Baradar and other Taliban commanders detained...

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30 June 2010

NATO's Grand Experiment Leaves Marjah Scrabbling For a Future, The Independent, 30 June 2010

EXCERPT: "In a country fractured by mountain ranges and ethnic splits, local government can assume an importance unseen in more benign environments. Turning it into a functioning branch of the state is integral to Western hopes for a stable Afghanistan. Yet months after Nato and the Afghan government first rolled in, Marjah appears to some to be stagnating.It...

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30 June 2010

Afghan Militants Fail in Attack on NATO Air Base, The New York Times, 30 June 2010

EXCERPT: "Eight Taliban insurgents were killed on Wednesday after they attacked the NATO air base in Jalalabad using a suicide car bomb and rocket-propelled grenades in an attempt to breach the gate. The attack, which was similar to one carried out at Bagram Air Base in May, began at 7:30 a.m. when a suicide bomber driving a car detonated his explosives...

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30 June 2010

Afghan Attorney General Says US Ambassador Pushed for Corruption Prosecutions, The New York Times, 29 June 2010

EXCERPT: "Afghanistan's attorney general disputed published allegations Tuesday that he had been pressured by the Afghan political leadership to sideline corruption investigations into some of the country's elite, and he turned on the American ambassador, Karl W. Eikenberry, alleging that the ambassador had pressed him to bring...

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