On September 12 a petition was filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan contesting the announced expansion of the U.S. embassy in the nation's capital.
??Pakistani media have been reporting that the United States plans to deploy a large number of marines with the plan to expand its embassy in Islamabad. ? [10]
The challenge was organized by Barrister Zafarullah Khan, who ??said that Saudi Arabia was also trying to get 700,000 acres (283,400 hectares) of land in the country. ?
He was quoted on the day of the presentation of the petition as warning ??Giving away Pakistani land to U.S. and Arab countries in this fashion is a threat for the stability and sovereignty of the country ? and ??further added that the purpose of giving the land to U.S. embassy was to establish an American military base"there.
??He maintained that such a big land was enough even to construct a military airport. ? [11]
Intelligence personnel and special forces are being matched by military equipment in the intensification of the West's war in South Asia.
On September 10 Reuters revealed in an article titled ??U.S. eyes military equipment in Iraq for Pakistan ? that ??The Pentagon has proposed transferring U.S. military equipment from Iraq to Pakistani security forces to help Islamabad step up its offensive against the Taliban". ?
A U.S. armed forces publication a few days afterward wrote that ??U.S. hardware is moving out of Iraq by the ton, much of it going straight to the overstretched forces in increasingly volatile Afghanistan ? and ??The U.S. military has already started moving an estimated 1.5 million pieces of equipment ?? everything from batteries to tanks ?? by ground, rail and air either to Afghanistan for immediate use". ? [12]
In the middle of this month ??U.S. military leaders infused Gen. Stanley McChrystal's ideas of how to win the war in Afghanistan ? by conducting a large-scale counterinsurgency exercise in Grafenwoehr, Germany.
??Dozens of Pashtun speakers joined more than 6,500 U.S. troops and civilians in an exercise for the Afghanistan-bound 173rd Airborne Brigade and Iraq-bound 12th Combat Aviation Brigade. It was the largest such exercise ever held by the U.S. military outside of the United States". ? [13]
The Pentagon and NATO have their work cut out for them.
??A security map by the London-based International Council on Security and Development (ICOS) showed a deepening security crisis with substantial Taliban activity in at least 97 percent of the war-ravaged country.
??The Council added that the militants now have a permanent presence in 80 percent of the country. ? [14]
The United States is not alone in sinking deeper into the Afghan morass.
On September 14 U.S. ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder, in celebrating the ??resilience and deep-seated support from our allies for what is happening in Afghanistan, ? was equally enthusiastic in proclaiming ??Over 40 percent of the body bags that leave Afghanistan do not go to the U.S. They go to other countries". ? [15]
Daalder also gave the lie to earlier claims that NATO troop increases leading up to last month's presidential election were temporary in nature by acknowledging that ??Many of the extra troops that NATO countries sent to Afghanistan for the August presidential elections would stay on. ? [16]
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