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President Pervez Musharraf to explain the terms and conditions agreed upon with the US.
Friday, October 10, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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Pakistani lawmakers are still looking for answers from the top intelligence brass on reasons for an upsurge in terrorist violence in the country and have suggested summoning former President Pervez Musharraf to explain the terms and conditions agreed upon with the US.
For this they have demanded another elaborate briefing from the ISI brass, which the government has fixed for Monday. The lawmaker
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The militia has been involved in talks with the Afghan govt, brokered by Saudi Arabia, to end the co
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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London: Taliban leaders are holding Saudi-brokered talks with the Afghan government to end the country’s bloody conflict - and are severing ties with al-Qaeda, sources close to the historic discussions have said.
The militia, which has been intensifying its attacks on the US-led coalition that toppled it from power in 2001 for harbouring Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network, has been involved in f
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Iranian fighter jets forced a foreign aircraft which had violated Iran’s airspace to land on its ter
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 justsamachar.com
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DUBAI: Iranian fighter jets forced a foreign aircraft which had violated Iran’s airspace to land on its territory, Iranian new agencies alleged.
According to the semi-official Fars news agency, the foreign plane was a U.S. Falcon and was ferrying military officials. Iranian state-television, however, said the plane was European with no Americans on board.
Iranian television said all those on boa
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Pakistan army is fighting its fiercest battle against militancy and terrorism.
Monday, October 06, 2008 www.ndtv.com
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Flexing their muscle is one way of looking at the Taliban's resurgence in Pakistans' Northwest Frontier province, bordering Afghanistan, where the Pakistan army is fighting its fiercest battle against militancy and terrorism.
The Taliban's brazen attacks in NFP area are only a curtain raiser to their increasing ability to penetrate into the big cities of Pakistan.
In the city of Mardan, home
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British army commander in Afghanistan says the international community should strike a political dea
Monday, October 06, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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LONDON: The senior-most British army commander in Afghanistan says the international community should strike a political deal with Taliban militants as they cannot be defeated militarily.
“We're not going to win this war. It's about reducing it to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat and can be managed by the Afghan army,” Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, commander of t
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US Vice Presidential candidates on Friday described an "unstable" Pakistan as "extremely dangerous"
Friday, October 03, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Washington: The US Vice Presidential candidates on Friday described an "unstable" Pakistan as "extremely dangerous" in their first live debate, with Democrat John Biden contending that its tribal areas and Afghanistan were the "central front" of the war on Terror and not Iraq as projected by the Republicans.
At the face off with political novice Sarah Palin, 44, ahead of the November election Bid
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Three students from Afghanistan have joined (Besu) to study civil engineering.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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KOLKATA: Three students from Afghanistan have joined the prestigious Bengal Engineering and Science University (Besu) to study civil engineering.
It’s a first, for both the institute and the Afghan trio.
Burhanuddin Salampur, Badshah Khan Derwez and Janat Gul Himmat had never stepped out of their war-ravaged country, until the Indian government decided to help Afghan students get back on their f
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No Indian has been kidnapped : Afghanistan
Saturday, August 04, 2007 www.rediff.com
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The authorities in Afghanistan have refuted reports claiming that an Indian has been kidnapepd by the Taliban and have maintained that all Indians working in a power project in north Afghanistan are safe. This was in response to earlier reports, claiming that an Indian engineer working at a power project in Puli Khumri in Baghlan province had been kidnapped.
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Former Afghan Ruler no more
Monday, July 23, 2007 justsamachar.com
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Zahir Shah, the former king of Afghanistan, has died at the age of 92 following a long illness. Shah was deposed in 1973 and went into exile, but returned to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2002. Most Afghans have a deep love towards their former ruler, whose 40-year reign was associated with peace, security and modest political reform.
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Afghan girls traded like currency, used to settle debts
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 justsamachar.com
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Nazir Ahmad who was unable to repay a loan of $165 that he owed, made good on his debt by selling his 16-year-old daughter to marry the lender's son.Inspite of advances in women's rights In Afghanistan, girls are traded like currency and forced marriages are common.
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