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This category covers the policy of nations towards the civil war in Afghanistan, including geopolitics and economic interests.

Resources in This Category

• Analysis: Pakistan's Tribal Frontiers

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1711316.stm
  The BBC's Rahimullah Yusufzai examines Pakistan's tribal borderlands where reports say Osama Bin Laden could seek refuge.

• Bush's War is the New Great Game

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/04/afghanistan.comment
  Commentary on the current status of the campaign and on Washington's growing need to demonstrate global support and multilateralism. The Guardian, UK.

• Crisis of Impunity - the Role of Pakistan, Russia, and Iran in Fueling the Civil War

  http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/afghan2/
  The essay published by Human Rights Watch in July 2001 explains the involvement of foreign nations in the conflict.

• Defense Establishment's Control of US Policy Poses Threat to Afghan Reconstruction

  http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav041002a.shtml
  Ahmed Rashid discusses the strong influence of the Department of Defense on US-politics in Afghanistan.

• Global Policy Forum: Afghanistan

  http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/afgindx.htm
  Security Council resolutions and other UN documents, a collection of articles, archive and links.

• Jackpot Afghanistan - Gas and Oil from Central Asia

  http://www.blueprint-magazine.de/oil/oil.html
  Article in Blue Print Magazine on natural gas and oil from Central Asia. Considers exploitation and transportation and outside interests.

• Media Monitors Network: Afghanistan, the Taliban and the United States

  http://www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq2.html
  Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed reviews the current crisis in its historical context to comprehend whether Western foreign policy toward the country has been formulated on the basis of humanitarian principles or not.

• Russia Anxious Over Grip on Oil as US Firms Join Great Game

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1360391/Russia-anxious-over-grip-on-oil-as-US-firms-join-Great-Game.html
  Discusses Russian and US strategic and economic interests in Central Asia. Ben Aris and Ahmed Rashid for the Daily Telegraph, UK.

• The West is Walking Away from Afghanistan - Again

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/jun/24/afghanistan.world
  The modernising forces are quickly losing ground to the warlords, while western governments refuse to deliver the cash they promised. The Guardian, UK.

• UK in Afghanistan

  http://ukinafghanistan.fco.gov.uk/
  Official UK government site from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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