Afghans Accuse NATO Of Deliberate Attack On Civilians

Today's AfPak roundup:

Taliban have killed one pro-government Afghan for each day of 2010. The insurgent group's assassination campaign against Afghan government supporters has made it nearly impossible for NATO and Kabul to fill key government posts in Kandahar province—in one recent recruiting drive, Kabul received only four applicants for 114 posts in Kandahar. "[Even] If we pay good salaries, if we find people, we will not be able to protect them," said one official. "We can't ask them to stay in police or military barracks." [McClatchy]

British PM comes close to claiming Pakistan supports terrorism. In a speech in Bangalore, India, David Cameron said that "We cannot tolerate in any sense the idea that this country is allowed to look both ways and is able, in any way, to promote the export of terror, whether to India or whether to Afghanistan or anywhere else in the world." Later on, Cameron refused to directly accuse Pakistan's government of supporting terrorism, saying only that this "has been the case in the past and it is an issue that we have to make sure that the Pakistan authorities are not looking two ways." [Guardian]

Kabul attacks U.S. for Pakistan aid. It is "not justifiable" for the United States to give $11 billion in aid to a country whose forces "train terrorism," Afghan national security chief Rangeen Dadfar Spanta said yesterday, adding that Washington should be punishing, not aiding, countries that support terrorism. Spanta's statement came after WikiLeaks released documents which indicated U.S. officials believed Pakistani officials were aiding the Taliban. [Reuters]

Afghans accuse NATO of deliberate attack on civilians. This claim was made by several survivors of a rocket attack alleged to have taken place in the town of Regey in Helmand province. The Afghan government says the attack killed 52 civilians, but NATO says a joint investigation by itself and the Helmand provincial government yet to find evidence that an attack took place. [Guardian]

Comments

[Hard2kill]

06:38 AM on 07/29/2010

Pakistan and Afghanistan are cooking the NATO and US so why can't we pull out from there? US is dumb enough to understand this thing....

[leftheaded]

06:14 AM on 07/29/2010

Google "operation gladio" or read Nato's Secret Armies if you want to know more. NATO has been doing this for decades.

[WTFbush]

04:58 AM on 07/29/2010

Read "Captive" by Van Dyk to get a clear understanding of the relationship between the pashto tribes, the taliban, the afgans and the pakistanis.

Civilians???

[WTFbush]

04:54 AM on 07/29/2010

Everyone needs to watch the video to the song, "Right Now" by Van Halen......

[TYRANNASAURUS]

06:44 PM on 07/28/2010

Afghans accuse NATO of deliberate attack on civilians.... JUST GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE AND LET THEM GO BACK TO KILLING AND BLAMING EACH OTHER....AFTER ALL THEY'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR 4000 YEARS AND ARE EXCELLENT AT IT.

[Hassan shoja]

04:22 AM on 07/29/2010

We just starting to blame each other since 2001.

[habeass]

06:25 PM on 07/28/2010

The taliban gleefully took credit for blowing up a buss killing 25 Afghans yeste rday. Where is that story HP?

[leftheaded]

06:15 AM on 07/29/2010

Source? Always consider the source.

[MikeDu]

05:20 PM on 07/28/2010

What's that old say? If your only tool is a hammer every problem begins to look like a nail. It appears some tasks your trust old hammer simply cannot perform no matter how hard you try. Perseverance may be a virtue of sorts, but its definitely not a 'solution'.

[Hassan shoja]

01:33 AM on 07/29/2010

The problem the whole so called "war on terror" was not nail (war) to begin with, it was an intelligence gathering operation by cooperating with Muslim countries instead of attacking them.