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The Afghan Foreign Ministry is shocked—shocked!—that Pakistani militant leaders are vowing jihad in their country.
The Afghan Foreign Ministry Thursday summoned the charge-de-affairs of the Pakistani Embassy to Afghanistan and lodged a protest over the remarks of Pakistani militants’ leaders, a statement of the ministry said.
“The foreign ministry described the remarks of […]

Pakistan’s Prime Minister has pointed his finger at the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan for violence in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
Speaking on June 28, Gilani stated that “foreign elements hailing from Central Asian republics are disturbing peace in the tribal areas.” Gilani was apparently referring to the mainly Uzbek Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)…
RFE/RL’s Alisher Sidikov does […]

I recall receiving no small amount of hate mail over my insistence to let Pakistan’s new civilian government handle the tribal areas in the way it sees fit, and not at the behest of any short term Western concerns. Behold:
Pakistani forces have launched a military operation against Taliban militants near the northwestern city of […]

Dig the rhetoric in Spencer Ackerman’s report on LTC Richard Hall discussing the Marines in the south of Afghanistan:
The 2-7’s mission is a training mission: they’re there to get the still-relatively-untested Afghan National Police into professional shape… The battalion operates in an area about the size of Vermont with only one paved road — the […]

For a couple of months now, Afghanistan experts like Barnett Rubin and enthusiasts (for lack of a better term) like me (I? do I say “I?”) have been warning about the increased levels of violence in the East—right where some new-fangled counterinsurgency tactics, lovingly described by clueless journalists, were meant to be most effective. The […]

From a New York Times story on foreign correspondents’ frustration with coverage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars:
Coverage of the war in Afghanistan has increased slightly this year, with 46 minutes of total coverage year-to-date compared with 83 minutes for all of 2007. NBC has spent 25 minutes covering Afghanistan, partly because the anchor Brian […]

On June 21, “Artillery shells fired from Pakistan landed in an Afghan army compound and close to an international military base in Afghanistan on Saturday and NATO forces returned fire, the alliance said.” This comes amid several other incidents of cross-border attack, though most were direct-fire, Taliban-style incidents. It is unknown whether the artillery was […]