German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has said ‘We need more than just words. We need action also in Afghanistan by the Afghan government“. He was speaking hours after Karzai spoke in his inauguration speech.
In his inauguration speech, Karzai described corruption as a ‘dangerous problem’ and promised to organize a conference to find ways to counter the scourge. Karzai won plaudits for his inauguration speech from Western officials including the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who said it was an “important new starting point” as the US-led war stretches …

NATO defense ministers acknowledged that operation in Afghanistan was not working and agreed that they needed a new approach to seize the initiative from Taliban and al-Qaeda in a recent meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia. NATO defense ministers also backed a plan to shift towards a full-fledged counter-insurgency strategy without elaborating how the new plan will be made to work, or commit troops to the move.
While addressing to reporters, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said:
It does not solve the problems in Afghanistan just to hunt down and kill individual terrorists. …