Afghan women and children are the most vulnerable people to the Proxy War with Russia and Iran in Afghanistan.
$840.7 billion US
August 23, 2017
By Steve Mufson
...Direct U.S. spending on the war in Afghanistan (click here) will rise to approximately $840.7 billion if the president’s fiscal year 2018 budget is approved, according to Anthony Cordesman, a military strategy expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. That includes the total cost estimated by the Congressional Research Service for the 2001 to 2014 fiscal years, and money from the Defense Department’s overseas contingency budgets for the fiscal years 2015 to 2018....
The Taliban is funded by the opium trade in Afghanistan. It was one of the reasons there was a forum with Jack Ma of Alibaba to bring a globalist economy to Afghanistan.
It can work IF Alibaba finds a way to provide raw materials so industry to produce consumer goods occurs in Afghanistan. The Afghan people need jobs. They need a normal economy that will end the opium industry.
India, as a USA ally, is looking toward peace through diplomacy for Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s chief executive Abdullah Abdullah shakes hands with foreign secretary S. Jaishankar during the 24th Sapru House Lecture at Indian Council for World Affairs, in New Delhi on Friday.
Afghan chief executive Abdullah Abdullah (click here) on Friday said the doors were open for talks with the rebel Taliban against the backdrop of the US announcing a reworked South Asia policy that promises to stay the course in the war-torn country and seemingly putting talks with the insurgent group on the back burner.
In New Delhi on a two-day visit, Abdullah also called on countries in the neighbourhood not to make any distinction between the Islamic State, which had established a presence in some provinces of Afghanistan, and the Taliban who have been fighting the US-backed Ashraf Ghani government in Kabul.
In an address to the Indian Council on World Affairs think tank, Abdullah welcomed the revamped US policy on Afghanistan but also stressed the importance of unity within the various sections of Afghan society.
Abdullah said that the “doors for peace talks will always be open... hopefully the groups that are fighting will be convinced to sever links with terrorism and terror networks and to work for their own country”....
The Taliban thought they would be successful in ending the economic trade show on behalf of Afghanistan. It went forward anyway.
September 27, 2017
The Taliban thought they would be successful in ending the economic trade show on behalf of Afghanistan. It went forward anyway.
September 27, 2017
New Delhi: Rebel rocket attacks on Kabul airport (click here) on Wednesday scuttled Afghan chief executive Abdullah Abdullah’s plans to open a one of its kind three-day India-Afghanistan trade and investment show in New Delhi on Wednesday but the event was inaugurated by Indian and US government officials.
The fair, supported by the US Agency for International Aid and the government of India, will showcase Afghan products like carpets, gems, dry fruits and marble as well as opportunities for investment in areas like education and health.
In the absence of Abdullah Abdullah, Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley and chargé d’affaires of the US embassy in Delhi, MaryKay Carlson, inaugurated the event....
