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NATO invited Russia to the Afghan war

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  1. iamsowise
    Member

    India and now Russia, US is ally both of Pakistan's friendly countries.

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen asked Russia on Wednesday to give the Western military alliance more help in Afghanistan but failed to get an immediate pledge of assistance from the Kremlin

    Rasmussen, who is trying to secure more support for the fight against the Taliban after U.S. President Barack Obama pledged 30,000 more troops, said Russia could up its efforts by contributing more helicopters.

    "I have invited Russia to strengthen Russia's terms of cooperation in Afghanistan," the former Danish prime minister said after meeting President Dmitry Medvedev in the Kremlin.

    The NATO chief later said that he had asked Russian leaders to allow the alliance to fly cargoes -- including possibly military ones -- over Russian territory to Afghanistan and to provide more helicopters for the Afghan armed forces.

    Russia says NATO members such as the United States, France, Germany and Spain already have bilateral deals to transport military cargoes and personnel across Russian territory.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BF38D20091216

    President Vladimir V. Putin has been invited by the Czech Republic's president, Vaclav Havel, to attend NATO summit talks scheduled for Prague in November, the Czech foreign minister said during a visit to Moscow. Nine east European countries once under Soviet control will attend the meeting, which will center on their applications to join the 19-nation alliance. Russia opposes NATO expansion but has softened its stance since NATO voted last month to give Moscow a voice in setting policy on some issues like fighting terrorism.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/world/world-briefing-europe-russia-putin-invited-to-nato-summit.html?pagewanted=1

    http://www.dailypak.com/emergency/9-02-10-news%20(2).html

    Posted 1 month ago on 09 Feb 2010 14:33 #

  2. Mirza Ghalib
    Member

    New Russian military strategy names NATO as chief threat
    Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Friday, 6.2.10, signed a new version of its main military strategy document which named NATO expansion as one of the chief threats to the country's security.

    Don't take anything Nato says about Russia (or anything else for that matter) seriously. Nato is enemy number one for Russia and now that fact is enshrined in the latest version of their militaty doctrine.

    All that Russia wants is to keep West trapped as long as possible in Afghanistan. China has the same wish, so has India and - if one can read between the lines - Pakistan follows the same policy. The longer they remain in Afghanistan, the quicker the West downfall.

    Posted 1 month ago on 09 Feb 2010 15:09 #

  3. Salam
    member

    NATO always wanted to pay for "bilateral deals" to transport military cargoes and personnel across Russian territory, but their price tag is very high compared with dirt cheap price tag of Pakistan.

    Posted 1 month ago on 09 Feb 2010 15:30 #

  4. hariskhan
    member

    Assalam-o-Alaikum-Warahmat-ULLAH ALL,

    We cannot expect any good from those who are infected with slave mindset.

    (I'll take back the words put here earlier on).

    Muslims should give the west a lesson worth learning! for trying to oppress Muslims.

    Posted 1 month ago on 09 Feb 2010 16:30 #

  5. Mirza Ghalib
    Member

    The first of the lessons Muslims will teach the west is just round the corner, in a country neighbouring Pakistan. Others are being prepared and will follow ineluctably.

    Posted 1 month ago on 09 Feb 2010 19:22 #

  6. change_is_close
    Member

    where's the with-us-or-against-us jargon now??? the mujahideen in afghanistan and iraq have brought the sole super power to her knees... look at how these arrogant americans have been humbled! they're stuck in afghanistan, big time, and their only hope is to be able to use the pakistan army.

    i think it is time for russia to take revenge - they would want the U.S to bleed to death!

    Posted 1 month ago on 09 Feb 2010 20:26 #

  7. junaid
    Member

    despite of all issues, kuffar is all amalgamated; as compare to disputed sold out muslims

    Posted 1 month ago on 09 Feb 2010 20:29 #

  8. KHAN_Sahib
    Member

    Russia has learned her lesson in Afghanistan and will never repeat the same mistake again. USA on other hand will very soon learn worst lesson then it learned in Vietnam.

    Posted 1 month ago on 10 Feb 2010 12:50 #

  9. kareem2
    Member

    afghanistan is a heap of rubble, what is left to destroy in it. The word afghan comes from persian as in a o fghan. her waqat fagan and add an a infront equals afghan.

    Posted 1 month ago on 10 Feb 2010 12:53 #

  10. change_is_close
    Member

    "what is left to destroy in it"
    the U.S empire! =)

    Posted 1 month ago on 10 Feb 2010 13:50 #

  11. Mirza Ghalib
    Member

    Quite right, change_is_close, quite right. The US empire or the Evil Empire or, to be short, the West. And that's in a clearly going, going, gone phase, thanks to the Muslims.

    Posted 1 month ago on 10 Feb 2010 15:28 #

  12. Patriot
    Member

    No doubt evil empire is learning a lesson. Vietnam was not enough.

    Posted 1 month ago on 10 Feb 2010 15:30 #

  13. hariskhan
    member

    Assalam-o-Alaikum-Warahmat-ULLAH ALL,

    Nope. They won't learn any lessons. They have geared up for the last crusade.

    They have tripled their military budget this year. That is not an indication of them having learned any lessons. That is an indication that they are moving forward with their 'plan'.

    The carnage happening in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Africa, in Yemen were all 'pre-planned'.

    Our nation, our people, unfortunately think the west is joking around.

    Posted 1 month ago on 10 Feb 2010 15:42 #

  14. Mirza Ghalib
    Member

    But the west is prolapsing as well. Economically they are toast, as one likes to say, done for, over. They apparently want one more big war, however, before they go out. Nuclear this time and, if possible, against Russia and China or both, or whatever. Sheer insanity!

    Posted 1 month ago on 10 Feb 2010 16:44 #

  15. hariskhan
    member

    Assalam-o-Alaikum-Warahmat-ULLAH ALL,

    DAWN News: Military helicopter crashes during Khyber raid

    Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
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    PESHAWAR: A military helicopter crashed while in action against militants in Pakistan’s northwest tribal belt on the Afghan border on Wednesday, officials said.

    The fate of the two people on board was not immediately clear.

    The Cobra helicopter was engaged in an operation against militants in the Tirah valley of Khyber, a lawless district that straddles Nato supply lines into Afghanistan, said local administration chief Shafeerullah Wazir.

    “It was a Cobra helicopter. It crashed during an operation against suspected militant hideouts in the area,” he told AFP by telephone.

    A military official confirmed that an attack helicopter crashed, but said the fate of its pilot and co-pilot was not known.

    “We are trying to get details about the cause of the accident and fate of the pilots,” military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said.
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    What does this tell us ?

    Posted 1 month ago on 10 Feb 2010 17:15 #

  16. Mirza Ghalib
    Member

    Thank you for above. I don't know what it tells others. I take it that Cobra was a west heli. If so, I see it as a wholly encouraging sign that the militants, the ones fighting our battles for us, have found ways to combat air power as well.

    Posted 1 month ago on 10 Feb 2010 18:46 #

  17. Anonymous

    The leader of the ones fighting your battles is missing. The others are on the run. It is encouraging sign for me, our brave Army and for our country Pakistan.

    Posted 1 month ago on 10 Feb 2010 19:27 #

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