Pakistan Lodges Protest to Afghanistan (killing of soldiers)

[ProSense]

Pakistan Lodges Protest to Afghanistan

Thu Mar 23, 5:48 AM ET

QUETTA, Pakistan - Pakistan lodged a "strong protest" with Afghanistan on Thursday over the killing by Afghan soldiers of at least 14 Pakistanis, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman said.

Tasnim Aslam said the ministry summoned Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan and "demanded an independent investigation into the incident and punishment for those responsible" for the killings.

At least 14 bullet-riddled bodies were found Tuesday in southern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan.

A local Afghan army official claimed they were Taliban fighters who had crossed from Afghanistan, but Pakistani officials said they were Pakistanis traveling to a religious festival in northern Afghanistan.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060323/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_afghan_killings_1

[IndianaGreen]

1. Let's have a war between these two!

Karzai can only control parts of Kabul. Musharraf doesn't control the areas where the shootings took place. The US is in a lose-lose situation between the Pakistani dictator and the Afghan puppet. The only winners are the religious fanatics in both countries.

[ProSense]

2. Getting worse.

UN council presses Afghanistan to rein in Taliban

Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:22 PM GMT

By Irwin Arieff

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council, alarmed by rising violence in Afghanistan, pressed the government on Thursday to counter a growing threat from the Taliban and other illegal armed groups.

Snip....

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in a progress report submitted to the council earlier this month, said a sharp rise in suicide bombings and attacks on schools in Afghanistan underscored the challenge facing the Kabul government as it struggled to become a viable democratic state.

Taliban guerrillas have been fighting the government since their regime was ousted from power after the September 11 attacks,

But Annan's report said attacks by anti-government fighters had soared since mid-2005 and continued unabated throughout the winter, in contrast to previous years, when they tapered off during the harsh cold season.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-03-23T202104Z_01_N23297187_RTRUKOC_0_UK-AFGHAN-UN.xml&archived=False

[IndianaGreen]

3. Hey, what happened to all the good news we were supposed to get?

Didn't that stupid woman in West Virginia said to Bush that the media never reported the good work our GIs are doing? The success stories?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. the taliban has a success story

let's report it! they are STILL at large and STILL viable and bushie is STILL failing!