Washington, July 30 : A new study conducted by a US-based organisation has suggested to the US to drop the “war on terror” label and shift its strategy against Al Qaeda from the current heavy reliance on military force to a “more effective use of police and intelligence work”.
The study by the RAND Corporation, a think tank that often does work for the US military, said that there was no battlefield solution to terrorism.
“Terrorists should be perceived and described as criminals, not holy warriors, and our analysis suggests that there is no battlefield solution to terrorism,” the Dawn quoted Seth Jones, lead author of the study, as saying.
Khyber Agency, July 29 : A remote mountaineous region in Pakistan that has almost turned into a dry riverbed, houses a terrorists training camp where about two dozen young men, most of them being in their teens, receive rigourous training for the war against NATO troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, said a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Islamabad, July 29 : If sources in the Pakistan Petroleum Ministry are to be believed, the export of subsidised diesel for the consumption of NATO forces in Afghanistan and the fuel smuggling across the Pak-Afghan border were causing massive losses to the national exchequer and straining fuel supplies in Pakistan.
Kabul - Several militants were killed in the central Afghan province Ghazni during an operation by the US-led coalition forces targeting a Taliban leader, military officials said Tuesday.
Kabul, July 28 : Former Canadian ambassador Chris Alexander, who is now serving as a UN deputy special representative in Afghanistan, says he believes Kabul when it says that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency is sending terrorists across the border to create instability.
Khost (Afghanistan), July 28 : At least 70 insurgents were killed near the Pakistan border in Afghanistan, when helicopter gunships and ground-fighting forces repulsed an attack by Taliban-led insurgents.
