WASHINGTON: The United States is conducting a comprehensive strategic review of the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to information available with the Centre.Sources said the US was carrying out the review from the military and political points of view which is likely to be unveiled at the NATO conference in April. Besides, the US State department is conducting a separate review. “All this will give fresh input to the American policy direction on Pakistan,” said sources. President Asif Ali Zardari blinking first and reinstating the Supreme Court chief justice was one such direction, they said adding, “What they (US) did in Pakistan speaks for itself ”.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
Comments