The Taliban's Resurgence in Afghanistan

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/12/14/A_Discussion_on_Pakistan_and_Afghanistan

Afghanistan experts Ahmed Rashid and Barnett Rubin discuss the increasing resurgence of Taliban activity in that country and Pakistan.

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The Asia Society's Nermeen Shaikh interviews Barnett Rubin and Ahmed Rashid on Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Barnett R. Rubin is Director of Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation of New York University, where he directs the program on the Reconstruction of Afghanistan. He has worked at CIC since July 2000. During 1994-2000 he was Director of the Center for Preventive Action, and Director, Peace and Conflict Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Dr. Rubin is a Director of Gulestan Ariana Ltd., a private company manufacturing essential oils and related consumer products in Afghanistan. In November-December 2001 he served as special advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, during the negotiations that produced the Bonn Agreement. He advised the United Nations on the drafting of the constitution of Afghanistan, the Afghanistan Compact, and the Afghanistan National Development Strategy.

Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist based in Lahore is author of three books including the best sellers Taliban and most recently Jihad. He has covered Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia for the past 25 years and writes for the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Daily Telegraph, and The Wall Street Journal.

Nermeen Shaikh is the Managing Editor of Asia Society Online. Her book _The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power_ has just been published by Columbia University Press. She studied politics at Cambridge University in England and at Queen’s University in Canada.

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[khiljiauto]

The first person should be killed is this bastard traitor AHMED RASHEED

[amaadh]

Yosefzai IF TERE WAS NO PAKISTAN HOLE WORLD WOULD FUCK YOUR PUSHTUNN ARSE MOTER FUCKING HOMOS ALL OF YOU PUSHTOONS ARE WEL KNOWN FOR THERE LIKING IN BOYS AND SELL OUTS FOR MONEY YOU FUCKERS SELL YOUR MOTHERS SISTERS AND DAUGHTERS AND WIFE WOT ABOUT THAT YOU MOTHER FUCKER DO YOUR HOME WORK NEXT TIME YOU POST A COMMENT

[Fixhist]

Aerial bombing on Civilian population is illegal, be it Pakistan,Afghanistan or Iraq.

[Fixhist]

Phattans are Bund Phaars, read history. Figure out why the fuck there is a place called Younas Khan in Palestine area? I can't say about which one of the two Iraq or Afghanistan will be vacated first. All invading forces of Afghanistan will be consumed, It will be very smart of ISAF and US forces to buzz of from Afghanistan, sooner the better.

[Yosefzai]

All muslims in pukistan why they are wearing the Pashtun cloaths?Because it was a honnor for punjees,baluch,kashmiris,sindh­i to own betees with Ghinkalon Pashtun.The cloats now pukis waring its call the Pathani suits in facking english.Pashtuns of pukistan must close the borders with all fucking curry masalas and etc..

[Yosefzai]

pashtuns must joine the rest of pashtuns in Afghanistan. Pukistan is darcknes for Pashtun people.Killllll mother fuckers,punjees,baluchs and etc..

[starhub1]

This frick*n bastrd is a paid for negative propaganda. He is also perhaps HIV +ve.

He has been saying bad things for the country but the nation has passed through many dificult times and while he makes his assumptions, he doesn't care about the challenges we've been through. I am sure Pakistan will trimpuph. We will InshAllah.

Only blinds can't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

[sensitive007]

This is a Real Mathar Chood, AR.

This bastard has built his career by bashing his own country. Thus, he is a Mother fucker.

He is rented by BBC, Telegraph, Herland etc.. and he writes books on bashing his own country.

I would be very happy if there is law in Pakistan to extradict or put on trial in court of this kind of traits.

All he says is bullshit, he tries to sell to the white ass's who hire such bastard for progogenda to put pressure.

[Energyium]

pashtun do not mean terrorists

pashtuns are human beings

majority of pashtuns are against terrorism

[Fixhist]

These fora members are talking in diplomatics of the satisfying audience which are pro-War against Rerrorism, pro-Mush & pro-Pakistan.

In the zeal of being pro,they missed the whole point of taking 911 as it the whole basis of the Afghan & Iraq war.

I would say talking about strategy of fighting terrorism is trivial,why not stress on facts of 911 & find out the beneficieries from that tragic day of 911.

Off course there is no proof9as of yet),if indeed there was any hijacking on 911.