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Analysis
More tactics
than strategy for Kabul
Unresolved
tensions in the Obama administration's Afghan policy have again been
highlighted by recent pronouncements by its top military officials.
This has sent confusing signals about the US-led coalition's next
and decisive phase of engagement in Afghanistan rather than convey
clarity in purpose and strategy.
In a spate of media interviews, General David H. Petraeus, the new
commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, called for more time
and patience for counterinsurgency efforts to.......More
Viewpoints
Piety and the
human heart
The
right place for piety and abstinence is the heart. If one is pious
and has the fear of Almighty Allah in his heart, then he will be
sincere. Such a person performs perfectly his duties in obedience to
Allah. If he lacks sincerity and has no fear of Almighty God in his
heart, then he does not posses the right spirit needed by him to
perform his duties.
He cannot, then, discharge his duties satisfactorily in spite of the
fact that the work, whether of this......More
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