KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) – A roadside bomb blast killed four Canadian soldiers Saturday north of Kandahar city, the Canadian military said.
The attack happened at about 7:30 a.m. as the Canadian forces were patrolling in an armored vehicle in the Shah-Wali-Kot district village of Gomboth, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Kandahar, said Canadian military spokesman Lt. Mark MacIntyre.
yeh man I am pashtun, so you can understand my natural affiliation to Afghanistan, esspecially since most of it is always happen in south and East Afghanistan (pashtun heartland). So ye, I sincerely hope to see positive changes.
Okay, now the borders are sealed so the Afghan leadership better look elsewhereother than Pak for blame allocation. A little introspection on their part would help.
Look at history no one has been able to tame afghanistan or pashtun tribal areas across the durand. The only example that can come to mind is when Ahmad Shah Baba brought the tribes together, however even then the seperate entities enjoyed a lot of freedom. I still have hope for afghanistan, I think after so much bad times, only good times are ahead.
The Afghan leadership and its Army is utterly incompetent.
Its divided on ethnic lines and mutual loathing.
They blame Pakistan for any problems and yet vast swathes of Afghan territory are now being run by War lords and Drug lords.
ISAF and NATO forces are not going to stay in Afghanistan for long.
They might leave by 2010 or 2011.
Afghanistan has a great chance of falling back to the hardline Taliban regime.
Pakistan better shore up its borders with Afghanistan and deploy more forces and build more garrisons and establish permanent military bases on the Pak-Afghan area.
With India-Pakistan being quiet these days, its time to move some of those forces to Pak-Afghan border areas.
I seriously doubt pakistan can do that, since pashtuns are on both sides of the durand, wiht blood relations. Pashtuns will oppose it. Ethnic problems maybe, but none of them are seperatists, except for a minority. I think we will wait and see what the future holds for the nation.
I dont want a large part of Pakistan not under Pakistani control
The status quo is at an end.
Some influential analysts say that it's impossible to ever "govern" those areas. The best you can have a proxy-government managed by a jirga and overseen by Islamabad. Though I personally believe that economics have a large role to play in the general trends witnessed in that region. To change the attitudes of the tribesmen they have to be brought into the larger Pakistani economy. They have to be weaned off the illegal drugs/arms/smuggling activity which they're currently involved in.
