Inter Press Service Afghanistan
After working to strengthen independent media in Afghanistan for three years, IPS has teamed up with The Killid Group (TKG) and Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) in 2007 to provide regular coverage from the ground of the war-torn country by Afghan journalists for an international audience. The partnership is a continuation of IPS's commitment to support local Afghan media, which has emerged as a platform for both debate and dissemination among the general public of diverse ideas, views and concerns about the country's past, present and future. And enhance pluralistic democracy by giving voice to Afghan citizens and civil society.
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Obama's Afghanistan Strategy Increasingly Under Siege
Monday's release by WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of
classified documents detailing the travails of the U.S.
military in Afghanistan and Pakistan's secret support for the
Taliban from 2004 through 2009 comes amid a growing crisis of
confidence here in the nearly nine-year-old war.
Leaked Reports Make Afghan War Policy More Vulnerable
The 92,000 reports on the war in Afghanistan made public by
the whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks, and reported Monday
by the Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel, offer no
major revelations that are entirely new, as did the Pentagon
Papers to which they are inevitably being compared.
