Afghanistan War News Updates -- October 4, 2012

US War On Afghanistan Militants Will Not Succeed, President Hamid Karzai Says -- NBC

KABUL -- Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday that the U.S.-led war on militancy would "not be successful,” and accused Western media of waging “psychological warfare” on his country.

The outgoing leader said U.S. efforts to defeat the Taliban would fail “from Afghanistan’s view” because it was being fought in Afghan villages, rather than against insurgents based in neighboring countries - an apparent allusion to Pakistan.

He said Kabul would only sign a cross-border security pact with Pakistan aimed at ironing out security differences when Afghans can be certain that "suicide bombers, terrorists, weapons and cross-border shelling" would stop.

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Karzai attacks gloomy predictions of Afghan future -- AFP
Afghan president says 2014 election will be on time -- Reuters
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Afghan president Karzai pledges to stand down in 2014 -- AFP
Karzai Says 2014 Afghan Elections Will Be on Time -- New York Times/AP

Clinton: US Committed to Afghanistan Despite Deadly Attacks -- Voice of America
Clinton Says Afghanistan Security Transition ‘On Track’ -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Afghanistan should be left 'to get on with things' – British ambassador -- The Guardian
Afghanistan imposes currency curbs in response to Iran rial dive -- Reuters
An Afghan hospital too unsafe to open -- Al Jazeera

Afghanistan - searching for hope 11 years on -- Deutsche Welle
U.S. response to insider attacks hurting trust? -- CBS
Looking beyond the Afghanistan dead end -- David Ignatius, The Australian
The 'Andar Uprising' and Progress in Afghanistan -- Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan, Wall Street Journal