The commitment of the British government to the troops in Afghanistan has come under fire from three former chiefs of the defence staff. The criticism from a trio of Britain’s most senior military figures came just hours after Gordon Brown said Britain would not “walk away” ...
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai that he will not put the lives of British soldiers in harms way for a government that does not stand up to corruption. In a speech in London, Brown vowed not to walk away from Afghanistan a...
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The foreign troop presence in Afghanistan may hit the headlines but reconstruction efforts are equally important for the country’s stability. The dam project over the river Kunduz is such an example – paid for by the European Union, one of Afghanistan’s main contributors ...
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Despite growing public disquiet British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has vowed not to walk away from Afghanistan. It follows a spate of British troop deaths this week, including five soldiers killed on Tuesday by an Afghan policeman. In London, Brown said the...
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The UN is temporarily relocating more than half its international staff in Afghanistan after last week’s deadly Taliban attack on UN workers. Five foreign staff and three Afghans were killed when suicide bombers attacked a private guesthouse where UN workers lived. ...
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Brigadier James Cowan, who heads up 11 Light Brigade, said partnering with the Afghan army and police was the "only way forward" and the incident showed "far from not doing it, we should be doing more of it".
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In this Peshawar market place in Pakistan, the majority of traders are Afghan refugees. There are 1.7 million displaced Afghans on Pakistani soil. Nearly half of them would be entitled to vote in a poll for Afghan president according to the United Nations refugee agency. But there is little appe...
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