If however the first round of the election is inconclusive and we find ourselves watching a prolonged second round of the afghan president ial election with the bsa and the sofa continuing to remain unsung then it will have a much greater impact both in the shortterm on our deployments, our posture in helmand and our drawdown and it no longer term on what nato is able to do even assuming esa does eventually get there. You have it all mapped out. Is there any evidence perhaps, any evidence on their side they have actually got an outline plan of what they require and that they have started planning so they could execute a quite quickly . Ess bsa . It will come under bilateral Security Agreement. And the status of forces too actually. Will it come under both of those things and we are still on the elections and i wonder what other prospects in your mind of the elections being free and fair and are they or will they be properly observed by independent observers . The Afghan Electoral Commi
Pakistans strategic interest is best served by stability in afghanistan. Clearly observed in those instinct two has been the pakistans strategic instinct is served by instability in pakistan and that cant be helpful. Theres a key role to play in developing its own security and that of afghanistan in terms of the taliban so how important is it going to be for pakistan to really take seriously conversations with their own taliban but also to refuse to provide safe havens for the Afghan Taliban and . As you see say two separate organizations and of course how the Pakistan Government chooses to engage with the pakistani and taliban and i think the current approach would probably best be described as a judicious mixture of carrot and stick. It is an issue for them but to the extent that the ttp Pakistan Taliban Pakistani Taliban are being able to find safe haven on the afghan side of the border i think it must be clear that moves by the pakistani authorities probably coordinated to control
While he went orchard for events in ukraine. More on that later nature a fan hello and welcome. I did it when its at five pm here in washington dc. I found her watching our team there the story about the twitter like service that the us launched in cuba four years ago and failed. Well there was an Associated Press investigation which revealed that the us has undertaken extensive efforts to hide the true nature of the messaging system calls and some mail. It was reported that the idea was to create a service that would carry neutral content at the beginning but once again the non subscribers that would be used to steer protesting about the Us International Development Agency has admitted to running that what i like social networking cuba but said he was not an attempt to undermine the government and that it was not covert. Rt political commentator tom sachs report on the latest latin American Country that is challenge washingtons claims. The fallout from the recently disclosed it is in
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