Pakistan will release 3,000 trucks stranded at the Afghan border as a dispute over border control policies.
Khaama's Sayed Jawad reports that 133 children die every day in Afghanistan, mostly because of diarrheal diseases caused by contaminated drinking water. "Lack of access to clean drinking water and sanitation is a chronic problem not only in rural areas, but also in most of the Afghan cities which are developing — unplanned — at a rapid rate. Even in the Afghan capital, Kabul, barely 25 percent of people, according to some reports, have direct access to potable water." In addition, there is only one health worker for every 7,000 people. (U.S. taxpayers have spent more than $600 billion to shoot people and blow stuff up in Afghanistan. That could have paid for a whole lot of water supply and sewage treatment.)
U.S. drone attack reported to have killed 12 people on the border between North and South Waziristan. The target is reported to have been Pakistani Taliban leader Imran Punjabi.
President Karzai meets with a delegation of U.S. Senators in advance of his trip to Washington, D.C. tomorrow. He tells them U.S. forces should withdraw to their bases. (Inasmuch as he is the president of Afghanistan I would have thought that would be up to him. Evidently not.)
Eighty seven prisoners arrested by U.S. forces are released from Afghan custody in a gesture of reconciliation. However, some object that they will rejoin the insurgency.
U.S. drone attack reported to have killed 12 people on the border between North and South Waziristan. The target is reported to have been Pakistani Taliban leader Imran Punjabi.
President Karzai meets with a delegation of U.S. Senators in advance of his trip to Washington, D.C. tomorrow. He tells them U.S. forces should withdraw to their bases. (Inasmuch as he is the president of Afghanistan I would have thought that would be up to him. Evidently not.)
Eighty seven prisoners arrested by U.S. forces are released from Afghan custody in a gesture of reconciliation. However, some object that they will rejoin the insurgency.