Nato forces to leave together from Afghanistan by September 11
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A coalition of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato)-led troops in Afghanistan will leave the country in coordination with a planned US withdrawal by September 11, Washington’s top diplomat said on Wednesday, ahead of a formal announcement of the end of two decades of fighting.
Around 7,000 non-US forces from mainly Nato countries, but also from Australia, New Zealand and Georgia, outnumber the 2,500 US troops in Afghanistan but still rely on US air support, planning and leadership for their training mission.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Brussels that it was time for Nato allies to make good on its mantra that allies went into Afghanistan together and would leave together.
“I am here to work closely with our allies, with the (Nato) secretary-general, on the principle that we have established from the start: In together, adapt together and out together,” Blinken said in a televised statement at Nato headquarters.
“We will work very closely together in the months ahead on a safe, deliberate and coordinated withdrawal of our forces from Afghanistan,” Blinken said, standing alongside Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg,
Nato foreign and defence ministers will discuss their plans later on Wednesday via video conference.
A senior Nato diplomat told Reuters that no ally was expected to oppose US President Joe Biden’s formal announcement, expected later on Wednesday, for a complete US withdrawal of troops by Sept 11.
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Apr 14, 2021 05:18pm
Indian Peace Forces should replace NATO forces after September 11.
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Apr 14, 2021 05:27pm
When master leaves, the minions follow.
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Apr 14, 2021 05:42pm
After 20 years of costly and useless war, neither the US nor NATO has anything to show for it.\
Essentially, it is a surrender to The Talibans - the entity, US went into Afghanistan to remove and eliminate, when Afghanistan is not just being left to its own devises, but is being handed back to The Talibans on a platter.
The Afghan government of Ashraf Ghani and Abdulla Abdullah will be packing up and either moving to Europe or the US under Asylum!
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Apr 14, 2021 05:50pm
Good for Pakistan. It can go back with old tricks of trade.
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Apr 14, 2021 06:14pm
The US went into Afghanistan to avenge 9/11 and not to be a peace keeper. The US met its objectives years ago and cannot wait indefinitely, keeping the peace or giving AF-Pak billions for nothing. The US has given the region 5 months to get its act together. It's up to Pakistan to convince the hardline Taliban to compromise to enable Central Asian transit trade via its territory. Or there will be war, partitioning Afghanistan diagonally, enabling Central Asian transit trade via Iran instead!
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Apr 14, 2021 06:17pm
it appears unlikely that the US will ever want to leave Afghanistan, it may well decide to use it as its military base. the spoilers do want this.
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Apr 14, 2021 06:21pm
China to fill in the gap.
Great chance to extend Road and Belt initiative to Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
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Apr 14, 2021 06:54pm
Finally the self-respect of Afghanistan will happen in 2021 after so many
years. There will be no more foreigners in the country. Be happy.
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Apr 14, 2021 07:19pm
@alamgir,
That was the plan, but providence planned better.
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Apr 14, 2021 07:23pm
That's exactly what the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces have been saying since more than last two decades that they will vacate the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Can they truly fulfill their promise this time? Only time will tell and confirm.
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Apr 14, 2021 07:30pm
Indian peace forces to fill the gap.
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Apr 14, 2021 07:45pm
Choosing 9/11 as withdrawal date was a terrible decision.
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Apr 14, 2021 07:50pm
and the party is over.
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Apr 14, 2021 07:52pm
The party is over.
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Apr 14, 2021 08:03pm
@M. Emad,
Why not Bangladesh?
Not good enough??
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Apr 14, 2021 08:07pm
Bad news for Pakistan
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Apr 14, 2021 08:08pm
Only superpower India can bring peace to the region
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Apr 14, 2021 08:08pm
No one trust tyrant invaders, defeat is sweet.
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Apr 14, 2021 08:09pm
@M. Emad, "Indian peace forces to fill the gap."
They would be sitting ducks in Afghan hands, when Russians and Americans could not win there!
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Apr 14, 2021 08:21pm
Trillions spent for nothing.
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Apr 14, 2021 08:27pm
The Soviet occupation could have never ended if US and its allies wouldn’t help Afghanistan. But in return the Afghanistan didn’t paid to US or it’s allies. It didn’t handover OBL to US, the only reason US has to step in.
Still US & NATO Forces will leave Afghanistan with honor & dignity, to great extent the objectives have been achieved, the seedlings of democracy has ripped, the future of Afghanistan could be bright if all war lords sit together with democratic forces and devise plan for peace
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Apr 14, 2021 08:54pm
@M. Emad, what about Bengali forces. Aren’t they interested in helping their afghan brethren along with their Pakistani brothers.
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Apr 14, 2021 09:01pm
That will be end blackmail of Pakistan once they withdraw.
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Apr 14, 2021 09:09pm
@A shah, Go for it nobody is stopping India.
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Apr 14, 2021 09:11pm
@bhaRAT©, Let India take over who cares.
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Apr 14, 2021 09:19pm
@M. Emad, as the well known spoiler.
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Apr 14, 2021 09:23pm
@A shah, :Inevitably Pakistan has to play a central to ensure peace in Afghanistan and the region against the different spoilers
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Apr 14, 2021 09:24pm
@Moiz, The RBI has prosperous future in the region and beyond.
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Apr 14, 2021 09:32pm
@Alih Kazmi, may the Providence you are right
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Apr 14, 2021 09:41pm
@M. Emad, Also Bengali armed force to help India you forgot to mention!
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Apr 14, 2021 09:42pm
NATO speaks as if it had an independent voice, when its only role is to tow the line.
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Apr 14, 2021 09:46pm
@A shah, Where America failed after spending trillions and nearly 20 years India would be destroyed.
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Apr 14, 2021 10:13pm
Be prepared, it begins again
Those thousands of Afghans, the dollar leeches including Karzai, and Ghani, who have made fortunes thanks to US presence, are about to flee to the west, leaving behind their warlord proteges who will go at each other like attack dogs.
Some middle, mostly lower middle are to move to Pak with tens of thousands of poor who will be provided with guns certainly by various foreign controlled interest groups to find safe heavens in Pak and create havoc in both Afpak.
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Apr 14, 2021 10:22pm
US has destroyed Afghanistan. Worst attrocitis are committed against Afghan people. US will give them aid to make them dependent. That is how US policies work.
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Apr 15, 2021 01:21am
Chess board is once again at a gamble.
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Apr 15, 2021 01:28am
The nation is in gravest danger in the last 70+ years. Seal borders and do not let Taliban invade us. They only listen to PMIK.
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Apr 15, 2021 02:10am
@Javed, North ATLANTIC treaty organization?
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Apr 15, 2021 03:05am
Americans came to kill babies.children,women , old men and anyone with a beard just to shed their frustration on their own orchestrated 9/11
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Apr 15, 2021 04:49am
@M. Emad,
Still in denial.
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Apr 15, 2021 05:31am
Finally Pakistan will get Afghanistan back as a brotherly fifth state and Afghans will be out of the long nightmare.
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Apr 15, 2021 06:26am
This is going to be an even bigger test for the US, as the British and the Russians found out in Afghanistan. Getting in Afghanistan is easy, the difficult part is getting out. The US and NATO have the advantage of taking the aerial route to evacuate unlike the British and Russians, who ended up targets for Afghan snipers in the narrow mountainous passes.
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Apr 15, 2021 06:26am
Hopefully, this will, in time, bring peace in the country after the initial struggle for power bound to take place between the Afghan government and Taliban, each backed by regional forces vying to fill in the power vacuum.
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Apr 15, 2021 06:54am
@Raja Farhat Abbas, before you say India will be destroyed in Afghanistan did you hear anybody from India say we will send our forces there?
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Apr 15, 2021 07:17am
Nato is the terror Windows of west
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Apr 15, 2021 07:19am
@Ali Mehdi,
IndoPak/Bangladesh are brothers, I wouldn’t include Afghans as brothers.
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