Pakistan to US: Don’t surge in Afghanistan, talk to Taliban (The Christian Science Monitor)
Pakistan contradicts US Gen. McChrystal’s strategy of pulling back from Afghanistan borders, and disagrees with the strategy of a surge to defeat the Taliban.
Taliban debating whether to end Afghan war: expert (National Post)
A debate is underway among the Taliban s senior leadership about finding ways to end the war in Afghanistan, and the Western coalition should pursue peace talks with moderate leaders of the insurgency, says the man widely considered to have the closest contacts, of any Westerner, with the Taliban
Afghan prison transfers halted more than once, general says (Toronto Star)
An Afghan agency, at one time entrusted to monitor Canadian-captured insurgents in Kandahar, says it has documented nearly 400 cases of torture across the country.
In 3 Tacks for Afghan War, a Game of Trade-Offs (MalaysiaNews.net)
Afghanistan , the most ambitious plan under consideration at the White House, the military would have enormous flexibility to deploy as many as 15,000 troops to the
In Afghanistan, fighting a legacy of corruption (USA Today)
When President Obama demanded this month that Afghan President Hamid Karzai tackle government corruption, no one welcomed the news more than Kabul real estate broker Haji Asadullah Safi.
In 3 tacks for escalating Afghan war, a game of trade-offs (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
Should President Barack Obama decide to send 40,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan, the most ambitious plan under consideration at the White House, the military would have enormous flexibility to deploy as many as 15,000 troops to the Taliban center of gravity in the south, 5,000 to the critical eastern border with Pakistan and 10,000 as trainers for the Afghan security forces.
All s well so far Gainesville-based Guard unit in Afghanistan (The Gainesville Times)
Morale is high and everybody in Gainesville-based Charlie Company is doing a good job in Afghanistan, said the group s commander, Capt. Jeff Moran, on Sunday at the National Guard Armory on Alta Vista Road.
