A bitter argument over secret talks with the Taliban broke out last night when a former UN official said claims that the arrest of militants by Pakistan had wrecked progress towards peace in Afghanistan were nonsense.
Peter Galbraith told media that Kai Eide, who claims to have negotiated with senior…
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At a press briefing on the upcoming Strategic Dialogue between the Untied States and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said the U.S. was “extremely gratified that the Pakistani Government has apprehended the number-two person in the Taliban.”
His reaction comes shortly on the back of revelations…
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PESHAWAR (Online) – Tribal leaders will discuss a strategy Saturday to end support for militants, their biggest gathering since the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and removed the Taliban from power.
At least 3,000 elders representing the 20 largest tribes in North West Frontier Province and the Federally Administered Tribal…
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Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Pakistan is no more a safe haven for terrorists who are on the run after Islamabad’s successful military drive, the BBC reported on Friday.
Former head of the UN mission in Afghanistan Kai Eide, who stepped down this month, has said…
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The arrest of key Taliban leaders in Pakistan put a halt to secret peace talks with the United Nations, the former UN special representative to Afghanistan said Friday in an interview with the BBC.
Kai Eide, who stepped down from the post earlier this month, confirmed for the first…
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NEW YORK – Efforts to put in place the political and security foundation in the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar have begun, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan has said.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal said the campaign to rid Kandahar of the Taliban won’t resemble last month’s military offensive in Marjah in…
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EGYPTIAN fighters are increasingly aiding extremists in the badlands of Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, providing training, financing and weapons, said a top Pakistani military commander.
In an exclusive interview with The Washington Examiner, 11th Corps Commander Lt-Gen Muhammad Masood Aslam said fighters from Algeria and the Sudan are also joining…
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A key Al Qaeda operative believed to have been involved in a December attack on a US base in Afghanistan that left seven CIA employees dead has been killed, a US official said here the other day..
According to western media, Hussein al-Yemeni, in his late 20s or early 30s,…
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One of the most important trade routes in Asia was closed last week while a boyish-looking man everyone calls “the general” showed around the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
General Stanley McChrystal clambered to the top of a roof, where “the general” — officially a colonel in…
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Imran Khan has warned that the Pakistani army’s offensive in the tribal areas is pushing the country to the brink of “civil war”, in comments published in a newspaper.
He also blamed US-Pakistan military attacks in the areas bordering Afghanistan for creating the Pakistan Taliban, in the comments in London’s…
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An eminent civil liberties union has filed a lawsuit seeking information about the highly secretive US drone attacks, especially in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
“The public has a right to know whether the targeted killings being carried out in its name are consistent with international law and with the country’s interests…
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A bomb attack in a restive Pakistani tribal area on Wednesday destroyed a tanker carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan, officials said.
The bomb planted under the oil tanker exploded near Parangsum village in the lawless Khyber tribal district, turning the vehicle into a huge ball of flame, administration…
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The Taliban’s chief military commander was in secret talks with Hamid Karzai’s family just weeks before his arrest by Pakistan intelligence officers, it has been claimed.
The Afghan president was furious about the seizure of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Karachi last month as the men had been negotiating, according…
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A senior American defence official is under investigation after boasting to colleagues that he had operated a maverick network of private security contractors to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
Michael Furlong allegedly told colleagues that his group of contractors in Pakistan and Afghanistan, many of them special forces…
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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Muslim League (Q) Secretary General, Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Tuesday said that Pakistan should not repeat its mistakes and must not have any favourite in Afghanistan.
The US needs Pakistan more than Pakistan needs the US; therefore, Pakistan should play its cards intelligently, Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed…
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Former president Pervez Musharraf criticized U.S. plans to begin pulling troops out of Afghanistan in just over a year. At a stop on his speaking tour, Musharraf praised President Barack Obama for committing 30,000 more troops to fighting the Taliban. But the former leader was sharply opposed to Obama’s plan…
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NEW YORK — The US Defence Department is investigating a department official who set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, The New York Times reported Monday.
Citing interviews with military officials and businessmen in the United States and Afghanistan,…
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