US shifting strategy against Afghanistan’s drug trade
Fort Worth Star Telegram – Fort Worth,TX,USA
By NICOLE WINFIELD AP An Afghan policeman patrols with Marines near an opium poppy field in southwestern Afghanistan in March. GETTY IMAGES/JOHN MOORE …
www.star-telegram.com/279/story/1457845.html

Taliban Losses Are No Sure Gain for Pakistanis
New York Times – United States
Children displaced from fighting in the Swat area attended a school in Mardan, Pakistan, run by Ummah Welfare Trust, a religious nongovernmental…
www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/world/asia/28swat.html?em

Quotations of the day
Washington Post – United States
Tom Tarantino, an Iraqi veteran and policy associate at the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Lawsuits recently filed against KBR and Halliburton …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/06/28/AR2009062800548.html

Pakistani forces kill at least 20 militants
The Associated Press
… while the bombing and shelling of targets in South Waziristan on the border with Afghanistan further weakened the Taliban as the military prepares for a …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5
hkiMxbHNH0BqgpWA2ZG6VD6wVTmAD9935RE81

Skeptical West debates Russia security plan
Reuters – USA
By David Brunnstrom and Ingrid Melander CORFU, Greece (Reuters) – The West looked at Russia’s call for a new pan-Europe security pact on Sunday but the eu’s …
www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE55R0UZ20090628

‘We see India as a key partner that will help us shape the 21st …
Business Standard – Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Under the direction of the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the broad-based inter-agency strategy to …
www.business-standard.com/india/news/we-see-india-
askey-partner-that-will-help-us-shape21st-century/362306/

Eradicating opium seen as ineffective
Atlanta Journal Constitution – GA, USA
The United States is shifting its strategy against Afghanistan’s drug trade, phasing out funding for opium eradication while boosting efforts to fight …
www.ajc.com/services/content/print
edition/2009/06/28/world0628.html

Editorial: Our demands from the US
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
Pakistan has trimmed its sails realistically by not out-rightly opposing the addition of 21000 US troops in Afghanistan. It has now actually asked that the …
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=
2009%5C06%5C27%5Cstory_27-6-2009_pg3_1

FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, June 28
Reuters – USA
FARAH – Five policemen were killed when Taliban insurgents attacked a checkpoint in the Posht-e-Rud district of western Farah province on Saturday, …
www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSISL475512

Pro-Con | Should Obama outline an exit strategy from Afghanistan …
Kansas City Star – MO,USA
More than 700 American troops have been killed in Afghanistan. This is something you almost never hear our leaders talk about: how long are we going to be …
www.kansascity.com/273/story/1293042.html

Think “Afghanistan”, you think “flyfishing”, right? “ Taunted by …
By False Caster
“Afghanistan will become again the tourist destination for Central Asia, for Americans, Europeans, for people of all the world. You can hold me to that. In five years. You can grab me by the tie and hold me to it.” …
tauntedbywaters.wordpress.com/2009/06/28
/think-afghanistan-you-think-flyfishing-right/

Barack Obama “A war that we must win” | Pakistan Daily
However, his ‘Israel-First’ administration believe that to win that war in Afghanistan – Pakistan must be dismembered first. In Obama’s own words:“I want the American people to understand that we have a clear and focused goal: to …
www.daily.pk/world/americas/10552-barack
-obama-a-war-that-we-must-win.html

Move more troops from Indian border to Afghanistan side, US tells Pak
By Ani
WASHINGTON – The United States has reiterated that Pakistan must move its troops stationed along the Indian border to the western Afghan border to focus more on the terror threat emanating from that area.
blog.taragana.com/n/move-more-troops-from
-indian-border-to-afghanistan-side-us-tells-pak-93906/

U.S. Gives Up On Eradicating Afghanistan’s Opium | Truhst
By Jon Gold
Source: www.rawstory.com BY STEPHEN C. WEBSTER 6/27/2009 Since the United States invaded Afghanistan, the country’s number one cash crop, opium, has repeatedly broken production records for the country. By some estimates, the occupied …
truhst.com/blog-news/us-gives-up
-on-eradicating-afghanistans-opium

US Announces Big Shift In Afghan Drug Policy – Greenville News …
TRIESTE, Italy — The US is shifting its strategy against Afghanistan’s drug trade, phasing out funding for opium eradication while boosting efforts to fight trafficking and promote alternate crops, the US envoy for Afghanistan said …
www.wyff4.com/news/19877593/detail.html