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International and Afghan forces killed 55 militants after coming under attack in southern Afghanista
Thursday, October 23, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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International and Afghan forces killed 55 militants after coming under attack in southern Afghanistan, the US military said Wednesday.
"ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces) and coalition forces responded with small-arms, rocket-propelled grenade, heavy-weapons and supporting fires, killing 55 militants," the US Forces in Afghanistan said.
Police had said earlier that 35 Taliban were killed in
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Terrorists could launch a fresh wave of attacks, targeting President Zardari's residence
Thursday, October 16, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Islamabad: Terrorists could launch a fresh wave of attacks in the national capital, targeting President Asif Ali Zardari's residence and the US embassy, Pakistani intelligence agencies have warned.
Terror masterminds have drawn up plans to hit Zardari House, the presidency, parliament house and the US mission in the near future, sources in the Interior Ministry told 'The News' daily.
The stri
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Pakistani Taliban leader has married for a second time a young girl from his tribe
Thursday, October 16, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Islamabad: The Pakistani Taliban leader has married for a second time a young girl from his tribe, around two weeks after several news channels claimed he had died following a prolonged ailment, media reports said Wednesday.
According to The News daily, Baitullah Mehsud, the head of a united front of smaller Taliban groups called the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or Pakistan Taliban Movement, openly
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India has strongly advocated implementing robust measures within Afghanistan to fight the "barbarity
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 www.ndtv.com
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India has strongly advocated implementing robust measures within Afghanistan to fight the "barbarity" of resurgent Al-Qaeda and Taliban elements while expanding "coordinated politico-military efforts" beyond the country.
"We need to go much further in realising the well established objective of degrading the ability of the Taliban to fight while simultaneously denying safe-havens, finances and ar
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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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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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Hindus by aggressive Christian proselytizers can justify what we are seeing in Orissa.
Monday, October 06, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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No amount of hurt and pain inflicted on Hindus by aggressive Christian proselytizers can justify what we are seeing in Orissa. It's neither resis
tance, nor courage. It's simply a self-injury borne out of ineptitude, weakness and cowardice.
We must stand with the sorrows of the Christians in Orissa with as much conviction and courage as we opposed and condemned the dastardly murder of a great
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Pak Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud dies: Report
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 www.ndtv.com
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Pakistan Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, the alleged mastermind in the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto died on Tuesday after protracted illness, a media report said.
The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Taliban chief, was said to have been suffering from diabetes and hypertension, passed away on Tuesday, according to Pakistani media.
However, Taliban spokesersons have denied these reports as
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3 South Korean hostages released by Taliban
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 sify.com
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The Taliban militants have released three South Korean hostages out of the 19 hostages who are under their custody. The three women hostages were relased as part of the deal struck between the Taliban and the South Korean government.
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