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Pakistan firing missiles into Afghanistan: Karzai
[Dawn] Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai  ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... accuses Pakistain of firing 470 rockets into two of its eastern border provinces in a three-week barrage. Afghan cops said Sunday that 36 people have died in the barrages, which hit civilians in areas where NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... forces have withdrawn. After the civilians decamped, Pak Taliban came in and occupied the cleared areas, Afghan border officials said. Afghan security officials say joint NATO and Afghan border units have fired back into Pakistain. NATO and Pakistain military officials, however, have denied any knowledge of border skirmishes. Posted by: Fred 2011-06-27 |
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