This is starting to sound like the line about having to destroy the town to save the town..."Accusations and denials are swirling in Kabul as the Afghan government and the international military forces try to unravel the facts surrounding an August 21 air strike in the...
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USA have been alleging it for a long time but a damning story in New York time has claimed that Taliban leaders are actually ensconced in Pakistan and operate the terrorist outfit from Pakistani soil. The report says that while American officials have stepped up pressure on...
I read somewhere recently that while everyone is talking about the US withdrawing from Iraq, nobody is talking about the ongoing impacts of US presence in Afghanistan - and Pakistan is caught up in this too.This...
"A LANDMINE blew up in the home of a religious cleric in southern Afghanistan, killing the mullah, two of his sons and two other men who had been preparing an attack, police said today.
The cleric's wife was...
In Pakistan, the Hamoodur Rahman Commission clearly named the people who had a role in East Pakistan [that broke the country into two parts]. But the result? Some of the culprits silently retired. Some...
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KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. airstrikes
targeting a meeting of Taliban leaders killed a high-ranking commander
involved in the kidnappings of 23 South Koreans two months ago, Afghan
officials said...
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People were setting up shop today at 47th and 2nd Avenue in anticipation for a rally across from United Nations on Tuesday September 18th, 2007 to protest Iranian President Ahmadinejad, wanted for crimes against...
About the Author"Tony Clifton worked for Newsweek for 30 years and covered the wars in Biafra and Vietnam, the Lebanon civil war, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the 1971 Bangladesh war and subsequent India-Pakistan...
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There really isn't much use in paying much need to stories like this is there? I mean, death in Arabia is just so commonplace that hey, who cares?I mean, more than a dozen American soldiers were killed just...
The Taleban's top leader in Afghanistan is reported as killed. The actual effect that this will have on the Taleban's ongoing campaign is as yet unclear."The Taleban's top military commander in Afghanistan, Mullah...
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"NEW YORK : Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in an interview published Sunday accused Pakistan's intelligence agencies of sheltering fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
Karzai said Omar, who has been on the run since being toppled by a US-led coalition some five...
"Afghanistan (Reuters) - Thousands of Taliban suicide bombers have been deployed across Afghanistan to attack Western troops and the government, the group's military chief said on Monday.
Following last year's violence, the worst since the Taliban's ouster in 2001, this year...
From our wonderful ally in the War on Terror. No wonder we can't find Bin Laden."
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Pakistan makes a deal with the Taliban
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
KARACHI - The Pakistani establishment has made a deal with the Taliban through a leading Taliban commander that will...
It's either that, or a fool's errand. I have seen nothing from the taliban that would make me think that an offer of peace and reconciliation is even desirable to them. If anything, it reminds me of the early days of the war, and the fall of Konduz. The...
"Taleban leader Mullah Omar is living in Pakistan under the protection of its ISI intelligence agency, a captured Taleban spokesman has said.
The spokesman, Muhammad Hanif, made the apparent confession to Afghan agents who videotaped the questioning.h/t n2l"I don't think this...