 RFE/RL Afghanistan Report 7/21/2010 5:10:02 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Afghanistan. For more stories on Afghanistan, please visit and bookmark our Afghanistan page . |
 Blaming Outsiders Won’t Solve Iran's Baluchistan Problem Problems in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan Province have exposed three stark fault lines within the Iranian political system: national-ethnic, Shi’ite-Sunni, and center-periphery. Over the last three decades, the government has done little for the country’s ethnic and religious minorities. More  Unrest In Baluchistan Contributes To Regional Tensions With the recent unrest in Baluchistan -- a vast desert region spanning Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran along the Arabian Sea shoreline -- comes renewed tensions across the region. And with renewed tensions come further setbacks to efforts to establish regional peace. More  U.S. Push To Blacklist Taliban Networks Could Reap Little Reward Senior U.S. civilian and military leaders are pushing for Washington to designate major Taliban networks as terrorists. But the move could adversely affect Afghan President Hamid Karzai administration's efforts to negotiate with certain Taliban networks based in Pakistan. More |
