US declares Afghanistan MNNA

[Sher Malang]

So in other words Afghanistan would continue to be a launch pad for anti-Pakistan elements. Cool.

So does it also mean that Pakistan became a launch pad for anti-Afghanistan and anti-Iran elements in 2004?

Afghanistan's neighbour Pakistan was the last nation to gain the status in 2004.

 

[Areesh]

So does it also mean that Pakistan became a launch pad for anti-Afghanistan and anti-Iran elements in 2004?

Yur own Afghan govt welcomed Pakistan when it became what it became in 2004. Can't see that happening now by GOP.

 

[Sher Malang]

Yur own Afghan govt welcomed Pakistan when it became what it became in 2004. Can't see that happening now by GOP.

Your government should also welcome this move for Afghanistan getting into their club no matter what!

 

[Kambojaric]

News isnt surprising. I thought they would have given the status a long time ago, but it makes sense. Make them buy your weapons, in future they will come to you to repair or replace. Either way US presence in the region is long from gone now and wherever the US is, there is war. May God bless our region.

 

[Areesh]

Your government should also welcome this move for Afghanistan getting into their club no matter what!

Yeah they should welcome this move when the Afghan govt is harboring TTP terrorists in Kunar and BLA in Kandahar. Do you have any idea what are you talking about?

 

[mjnaushad]

Congratz......

 

[newdelhinsa]

Its not about Pakistan or India its about Afghanistan and only wishful thinking an ordinary Afghan would like to have having Pakistan and India both as friends, out influencing each other by investing in their development and stability. India is earning its influence with constructive and positive actions and mind set. Pakistan can do the same for the larger benefit of Afghanistan. Your actions should speak for you not words.

graphican: You are not friendly towards Afghanistan because it suits India, you support it because you cannot comprehend it being a support for Pakistan. Its funny to see how helpless and compelled you are to think WRT Pakistan every time you think.

You are saying something for sake saying something.

Support for Pakistan to work against India ? You shouldn't complaint If Indians think/say the same like you wrote above.

Pakistan doesn't need a backyard anyway,

oh because Graphican is saying so we will take it merely on its face value. Your COAS who invented the term 'strategic depth' might not agree with you.

but we need friends in 4 corners of our homeland.

In case we cannot make friend with India, we need friends on 3 corners of Pakistan and Afghanistan is a friend,

Easier said then done. Nations doesn't become friends by default one has to earn it especially for countries who try to solve their issues with confrontation. Your nation has few fault lines from its inception and by the course of time with Afghanistan, nothing to with India. I hope your nation will now solve those issues which were not solved in last 60 years.

Just like Iran and China so we are happy to have our friends getting stronger, stabler and not just self-reliant but also supportive at the time of need.

There are no permanent friends. Their achievements are useless for you. Your brotherly talk and best wishes for them doesn't add value to the topic in hand.

You can not talk for Iran and when you talk for China then you can not talk down/against India trying being friend with Afghanistan like you just did few lines above. Next time write something intelligent which doesn't fire back at you or contradicts you.

But we do need to eliminate Indian influence from Afghanistan and Pakistan should act more actively to make that happen.

Here you go. Now all your sweet wishes have conditions ambushed in it.

To do this you need consent of Afghanistan, you have to depend on what Afghanistan tells you. If they are happy with Indian mission in Afghanistan then you can't do a squat. We in Afghanistan are answerable to Afghans government not Pakistan. So all your paranoia vis a vis India in Afghanistan becomes fiction automatically as we will never compromise our friendship with Afghanistan by using their land to confront Pakistan or without their consents. If Pakistan wants to interfere in Afghanistan internal matters with unconventional methods for its paranoia of India then Afghans are not going to be friendly with you. If they are not friendly with you it doesn't mean they will be more friendly with India BTW.

If people in Pakistan understand this but just want to troll at Afghanistan who is be able to quench benefits from Indian investment then again its not a sign of a good friend and morally wrong.

 

[pakdefender]

The united states will have to dispose off a lot of used military hardware in the coming year or so and it seems selling it off to afghanistan is what they will do , making afghanistan MNNA makes doing this more easier.

The US will be handing over to the afghans the white elephants of the its military hardware in afghanistan , take for example the humvees that are being handed over to afghanistan.

these vehicles have horrendous fuel efficiency , they barely do 12 miles to a gallon , so whose going to foot in the bill for the fuel for these after these are handed over to afghanistan ?

we are happy to have america and india get screwed in afghaniastan , works just fine for us

 

[regular]

Congrats to Afghans.....USA is well known to skrewup its allies real good. So GoodLuck for the Afghanistan..........

 

[ajtr]

It seems all those countries which get bombed or occupied by USA NATO combine ultimately are given the lollypop of MNNA to calm its leadership down.

 

[KRAIT]

It seems all those countries which get bombed or occupied by USA NATO combine ultimately are given the lollypop of MNNA to calm its leadership down.

They bombed Taliban and giving MNNA to Afghanistan which is government by Hamid rather than a taliban leader. Nothing wrong with it. After all they will keep their presence even after 2014.

 

[ares]

It seems all those countries which get bombed or occupied by USA NATO combine ultimately are given the lollypop of MNNA to calm its leadership down.

List of USA's MNNAs

South Korea
Australia
Egypt
Israel
Japan
South Korea
Jordan
New Zealand
Argentina
Bahrain
Philippines
Thailand
Kuwait
Morocco
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Taiwan
Panama

Pray do tell, how many of them have been bombed/occupied by USA/NATO?

 

[Kompromat]

I am more intrested in what Beijing will think of it , US has its containment policy on steroids. MNNA means Afghanistan will become an official Air craft carrier for uncle Sam against Chinese. CIA will get a long term foothold in Afghanistan where from they can fund Terrorists in Iran , Chechniya , Daghistan , Pakistan and even China to delay the innevitable rise of Asian economies by not letting SCO realize its full potential.

This news is a response to Chinese announcement of more investments in Afghanistan. This news is a bad news for Afghanistan more than others.

 

[peep]

Oh yeah same as they did to Pakistan after declaring it 'major ally' in 2004 but wait we will try not to make mistakes which Pakistan has made!

PS: What was the point of changing the thread title?

It better suited before as 'US declares Afghanistan major ally' not ' US declares Afghanistan MNNA'

No one knows what MNNA means behind the topic - too much obsession towards Afghanistan?

MNNA = Major non NATO ally.

It may have been changed due to thread merging..

List of USA's MNNAs

South Korea
Australia
Egypt
Israel
Japan
South Korea
Jordan
New Zealand
Argentina
Bahrain
Philippines
Thailand
Kuwait
Morocco
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Taiwan
Panama

Pray do tell, how many of them have been bombed/occupied by USA/NATO?

 

[Paan Singh]

I am more intrested in what Beijing will think of it , US has its containment policy on steroids. MNNA means Afghanistan will become an official Air craft carrier for uncle Sam against Chinese. CIA will get a long term foothold in Afghanistan where from they can fund Terrorists in Iran , Chechniya , Daghistan , Pakistan and even China to delay the innevitable rise of Asian economies by not letting SCO realize its full potential.

This news is a response to Chinese announcement of more investments in Afghanistan. This news is a bad news for Afghanistan more than others.

who brought them in a-stan? pakistan