By AfPax co-founders and owners Eason Jordan and Robert Young Pelton

Our AfPax information service was launched in mid-2008 in response to appeals from officials of several governments, regional experts, and journalists calling for more and better open-source information on and from Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The then U.S. and coalition...

AfPax broke the news in June, but only now months later on the eve of the Afghan presidential elections is the scoop getting global attention.

Here is AfPax's original report.

Here is the report in Pakistan's Dawn newspaper.

Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is working his crunch time magic, recruiting long-time enemies and challengers to forge a real-life Afghan "Survivor"-style alliance meant to ensure Karzai's re-election.

While the...