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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Afghan news from the Taliban Afghan soldier shoots and kills 3 French invading terrorists, injures several more KAPISA, Dec. 29 – Ibrahim, who is reported to have joined the puppet army for specific purpose, achieved his aim by taking out 3 French invading terrorists and wounding a number of them after he had opened fire on a group of the French terrorists in Shamshad base in Tagab, Kapisa province on early Thursday morning at about 6:00 a.m. local time. . He was shot and martyred by the invaders in change of fire. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un (إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ) 'Surely we belong to Allah and to Him shall we return'. 3 American terrorists killed by Afghan soldier FARAH, Dec. 28 – An Afghan soldier killed 3 American terrorists and wounded another 2 yesterday afternoon after a verbal argument with one of the invaders who was desecrating a mosque in Pusht Rod district’s Charmas village. Witnesses from the scene add that the soldier was later killed by the enemy troops. It should also be mentioned that 8 other American invaders were also killed in a similar incident 3 days earlier in the same district. Pakistan defies US, honors Iran gas deal Islamabad has stepped up work on its bilateral agreements with Tehran including the implementation of a Pak-Iran gas pipeline project despite US threats. “Construction work on the pipeline in Iranian area was completed. And on remaining portion that was to be constructed in Pakistani area the survey has been completed. Pakistan is bearing losses due to energy crises and it would go ahead with different options including Iran,” The Nation quoted a Pakistani official as saying on Thursday. The Pakistani source added Islamabad had not backed down from its trade agreement with Iran. On December 19, high-ranking Islamabad diplomats said the administration of Barack Obama is frustrated with the “rapid progress” of Pakistan's gas project with Iran, and is exhausting all its resources to sabotage the deal. “They (US officials) have gone to the extent of threatening [Pakistan's] President [Asif Ali] Zardari of economic sanctions if work is not stopped immediately,” the official said. Zardari, however, reportedly dismissed the threats, bluntly asserting that the commissioning of the project is vital and inevitable for the wellbeing of Pakistan's “fast crumbling” economy. The USD 7.6 billion gas pipeline deal, which was signed in June 2010, aims to export a daily amount of 21.5 million cubic meters (or 8.7 billion cubic meters per year) of Iranian natural gas to Pakistan. Iran and Pakistan finalized the details of the deal during bilateral talks held in Tehran in October 2007. In addition to exporting gas to Turkey, Armenia, and Pakistan, Iran is currently negotiating gas exports to Iraq. U.S. Closing Down Its Logistics Through Pakistan After the U.S. November 26 attack on a Pakistani border post that killed 26 Pakistani soldiers the logistic line from Karachi into Afghanistan was shut down by Pakistani authorities. It was expected that the line would be reopened after a few weeks. But as the U.S. is not forthcoming with the apology Pakistan demands and even partly blames Pakistan for the incident despite the fact that all the miscommunication that led to it happened on the U.S. site, the chances to reopen the line have dwindled. Consequently the U.S. is now pulling out the equipment and wares currently stuck on the transport route in Pakistan, as reported by the Express Tribune: “It has been a month since the Nato attack which resulted in the port and border closures with no resolution in sight, the US government intends to have all import unit cargo that is currently staged at different Container Holding Yards (CHYs) moved back to Karachi port or the nearest CHY to the port. Once we receive approval, all unit cargo will be exported out of Pakistan,” wrote Anita Rice, Chief of the OCCA SWA (595th Trans Brigade, NSA Bahrain) in an email to all ‘concerned’ persons. … According to sources, US cargo, stranded in Pakistan, is worth millions of dollars and US authorities have serious concerns over the safety of the cargo as it includes hammer [sic] vehicles, dumpers, anti-aircraft guns, special carriers of anti-aircraft guns, vehicles specially built to jam communications, cranes and sophisticated weapons.“We will compile information for submission to Pakistan customs for amendment for cargo export,” Rice said in her email, providing US Lieutenant Colonel Jerome Heath’s contact number for further assistance. It will take several months to get all the stuff stuck in Pakistan back on ships and even longer to reroute it through the Northern Distribution Network (NDN) into Afghanistan. It will also cost a lot of money. Flying equipment into Afghanistan costs about $14,000 per (short) ton. A 20" container coming through the NDN through Russia and Uzbekistan costs about $12,000, double the amount it costs for the same container to be routed through Pakistan. Additionally there is concern about the ability of the rail network in Uzbekistan, recently hit by a mysterious explosion, to carry the additional load of what so far has come through Pakistan as well as corruption and the U.S. denial of the abysmal human rights record of the Karimov regime. Aside from that, current NDN agreements do not allow for the transport of weapons and ammunition through the NDN and it is, so far, a one way route that can not be used for the ongoing retreat from Afghanistan. Obama’s decision to not apologize for the border incident, taken out of fear of attacks from the domestic political right, will turn out to be very expensive and will hinder future U.S. operations in Afghanistan for quite some time. But the political impact of completely closing down the logistic line through Pakistan might even be bigger. It removes another point of common interest the U.S. and Pakistan have had. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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