US held a ''Frighteningly Simplistic'' view of Afghanistan; General McChrystal

WASHINGTON: General Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of allied forces in Afghanistan has claimed that the US held a ''frighteningly simplistic'' view of the country when it declared war on the Taliban in 2001, and after a decade still lacks the necessary know-how to bring the conflict to a satisfactory end. 

The General estimated that the US and its NATO allies were barely half-way to achieving their mission goals, adding that establishing a government in which Afghans retained confidence and which could stand up to the Taliban remained the biggest challenge.

Govt and its foreign backers have failed in Afghanistan; Karzai

KABUL: The Afghan president said his government and its foreign backers had failed to provide ordinary Afghans with security. 

“We’ve done terribly badly in providing security to the Afghan people, and this is the greatest shortcoming of our government, and of our international partners,” Karzai said in an interview with the BBC, broadcast on Friday.

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Pakistan Must Protect US Interests, Obama

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that the United States would not feel comfortable in a long-term strategic relationship with Pakistan if it did not protect US interests as well. 

President Obama was pushed aside by the domestic agenda and asked by a journalist if he agreed with Admiral Mullen’s accusation that Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI had used the Haqqani network as a virtual arm.

Egypt marks October 1973 war with Israel

Cairo : Egypt marks October 1973 war with Israel , the day has been celebrated with pomp every year since Egypt launched the surprise war, in tandem with Syria, to regain territory which the Arab states lost to Israel in the devastating 1967 Six-Day War.

It was on this day 30 years ago when fighter jets at a military parade distracted president Anwar Sadat as an Islamist army officer who opposed the peace treaty sprinted up to the stand and shot him dead.