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| NEW YORK | RUPEE NEWS | July 25th, 2008 | Moin Ansari |: Right after another daring attack on Kabul rattled Karzai’s shakey regime,  Mr. Karzai said that “‘I Wish I Had the Taliban as My Soldiers’ Hamid Karzai “. Well the “Mayor of Kabul” doesn’t. The Paushtuns on the other hand have most of the country on their side. They have the Taliban, the Hiz ul Mujihideen and almost all of the other leaders who foremerly opposed the USSR and fought them. Britain’s unnecessary wars in 1879-1939-2001.  

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Defeated & dejected in a Helmund dust storm

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Impact of Pashtuns Summer attack on Kabul: Will Karzai survive?. Begining of the end? Reports last night said Maulana Fazlur Rehman, regarded as having unparalleled insight into the mood of the three million tribesmen in the NWFP, and leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, was backed in his assessment by members of the coalition Government from the Awami National Party, which rules in the province’s capital, Peshawar. Frustrated Karzai on edge: Blames West for defeats & chaos

Yesterday, the army was reported to have abruptly ended an operation in the Hangu district, close to Peshawar, after threats by militant leaders.

Maulana Fazlur Rehman and the ANP members blamed the worsening situation on “President (Pervez) Musharraf’s eight-year policy to deal with the issue through the barrel of a gun, and the alliance with America”. Damadola, Drones, divorce: US attacks evince reevaluation of US-Pakistan relations and extreme anger at America

Afghan hideouts

The crisis meeting resolved to pursue dialogue with the militants.

It also declared itself to be implacably opposed to US or other forces entering Pakistani territory to deal with the growing jihadi militancy. Hollow Victory! Defeat’s agony! Afghanistan-Iraq  

The operational commander in Afghanistan, a 53-year-old Egyptian named Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, was interviewed on Pakistani television yesterday and claimed the organisation’s strength in Afghanistan was growing so rapidly it would “soon occupy the whole country”.

He claimed that “the morale of our fighters in Afghanistan is very high and they are putting up a tough fight against US troops”. Failure and defeat in Afghanistan has reslted in payback and blowback against Pakistan

Afghan baby dies for whose victory

He also claimed responsibility in the interview for a terrorist attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad.

The fact of the interview, as much as what he said, is seen as indicating an important new stage in the crisis.

“The bad guys are even popping up and giving television interviews: that’s a reflection of what’s happening,” one foreign diplomat in Islamabad said last night.

A leading think tank warned this week about the Taliban’s use of a media strategy to exaggerate their strength and undermine confidence in the Afghanistan Government.

The International Crisis Group says the administration and its backers must counter this propaganda if they are to defeat an insurgency “that is driving a dangerous wedge between them and the Afghan people”, in a report entitled Taliban Propaganda: Winning the War of Words? British “Charge of the Light Brigade” in Afghanistan AGAIN: Unfortunately the lessons of the unmitigated disaster of “Auckland’s Folly”, (First Anglo-Afghan War 1838–42) have not been taught to the Oxbridge students.

The Taliban now publicise their messages, warnings and claims of battle successes through a website, magazines, DVDs, cassettes, pamphlets, nationalist songs, poems and mobile telephones.

Audacious tactics such as the Kandahar jailbreak last month and the April assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai show that the intent is to grab attention.

“The result is weakening public support for nation building, even though few actively support the Taliban,” the report says.

It says the international community should also examine its own actions, adding the benefits of military action are outweighed by the alienation they cause.

“The Taliban is not going to be defeated militarily and is impervious to outside criticism,” the ICG says.

“Rather, the legitimacy of its ideas and actions must be challenged more forcefully by theAfghan government and citizens.” UK Afghan defeats at Maiwand, Gandamak: Lessons learend for NATO and ISAF)

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