Kabul—Global
pressure mounted on President Hamid Karzai on
Sunday to accept a possible runoff in
Afghanistan’s disputed election as extended
diplomacy delayed the announcement of official
results from the August poll.
Washington—A trip by the U.S. defense secretary
to Tokyo this week will offer an early test of
ties with Japan’s new government, which swept to
power last month promising a more independent
path from Washington.
Dhaka—Bangladesh, which
is currently engaged in a dispute with Myanmar
over border fencing, fears that Yangon may
attack its St. Martin’s Island in the Bay of
Bengal, a media report said. Bangladesh Rifles (BDR),
which guards the land border, has identified the
St Martin’s Island as the “probable main target”
of Myanmar and has asked the government to
immediately strengthen its defence by
constructing aircraft landing zones and concrete
bunkers.
Vancouver
(Canada)—A ship suspected of carrying 76 illegal
migrants was intercepted in the Pacific Ocean
off Canada’s west coast, police said.
Authorities including military, police and
border agents “identified and secured a vessel
displaying the name ‘Ocean Lady’ that was
approaching the coast of British Columbia”
province, said a statement Saturday from the
Federal Border Integrity Program of Canada’s
national police force.
WE’VE been in Afghanistan longer than any other
war in American history. The party of the
president who invaded Afghanistan has been
repudiated at the polls. Yet we still haven’t
altered the flawed strategy that allowed
uneducated tribesmen with outdated weapons to
defeat us year after year. We haven’t learned a
thing.
