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26 articles tagged "Asia"
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DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 8, 2002, 7:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
Notwithstanding intense efforts by a group of nine of the most powerful US senators and British premier Tony Blair, who have been crisscrossing Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Afghanistan, Indian-Pakistan war tensions remain high. Not a day goes by without skirmishes, firefights and casualties on both sides and mutual ...
DEBKAfile
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December 31, 2001, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
The highly advanced Israeli-made weapons systems acquired by the Indian army in 2001 figured prominently in the tactical pros and cons of going to war, in New Delhi and Islamabad alike. Revealing this, debkafile's military sources name the items imported from Israel as the Green Pine radar system, ...
DEBKAfile
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December 5, 2001, 3:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
A factor in the current battle for control of the Tora Bora cave complex north of Kandahar is the balance of power in Kabul. The official objective of the fighting in that sector is to flush out the one thousand al Qaeda fighters believed to be hiding in those caves ...
DEBKAfile
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November 13, 2001, 3:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military experts note that only a fraction of the Taliban's estimated 60,000 strong army was struck down in the latest round of fighting. Most fell back with their weapons - almost without firing a shot. Before abandoning Kabul, they emptied the banks. Even the 55th Brigade, the ...
DEBKAfile
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November 12, 2001, 3:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Northern Alliance's surprise rout of the Taliban in its most formidable Northern fortress of Konduz Monday completed the Afghan opposition's control of northern Afghanistan. The almost simultaneous fall of the northwestern town of Herat offers the Northern Alliance the military option of continuing its victorious march all the way ...
DEBKAfile
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October 16, 2001, 3:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
Pakistani President Pervez Musharref had hoped that the brief visit US Secretary of State Colin Powell paid to Islamabad on October 15-16 would end in a joint announcement of a ceasefire in Afghanistan. This did not come about and the Pakistani leader had to content himself with a declaration of ...
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