Munaeem's Blog

Washington has lodged a complaint with Chinese authorities about the Chinese weapons found in the hands of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. They assert that weapons sold to Iranian government are being transferred to Taliban. US authorities say they have caught a 10-ton weapons cache in the western Afghan province of Heart.

In my opinion Washington has started the blame game to hide its failure in Afghanistan. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told the press that Washington had no evidence to prove that Iranian government is involved in the smuggling of weapons. I fail Washington is maligning Iran on the basis of suspicions.

We know that Shi'ite Iran and the Sunni Taliban had been arch enemies since 1998, when the Taliban regime killed nine Iranian diplomats in Mazar-e Sharif.