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US President Obama’s troop pledge to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan rests on a gamble on unreliable and dubious allies supposedly working towards the pressing goals in that country. The troop surge will have to rely on the corrupt Karzai government, perceived to be one of the most corrupt political administrations in the world [...]

After weeks of dilemmas and speculations, U.S President Barack Obama has finally given his approval to send in thousands of more troops to reinforce the currently serving coalition forces in Afghanistan. President Obama later conducted telephonic conversations with other Heads of States such as Britain, France and Russia and informed them of his decision [...]

The Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, which is the principle air base of the US forces currently stationed in the country, has been identified as a site for a secret US detention facility by various human rights researchers and by the ex-detainees who were previously held in the prison known as the “Black Jail”. As per the description given the former [...]

The bedrock principle in the debate on the war in Afghanistan rests on the idea that whatever military action the US undertakes in the country will only serve as ‘a prelude to, rather than a substitute for, Afghanistan taking over the security job.’ That is saying that the ‘White House wants to make sure surge will enable handover.’ The Obama [...]