Taliban insurgents appear to be making good on threats to kill candidates in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections, adding a grim dimension to the ambitions of political hopefuls in the war-torn country.
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Lieutenant General Sir Nick Parker, the deputy commander of the International Security Assistance Force, said allied forces were making progress against Taliban insurgents but it was “hard, slow and variable”.
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KANDAHAR CITY (Reuters/AFP) – Militants operating out of safe havens in Pakistan remain a major threat to Afghanistan but cooperation between NATO-led forces and the Pakistani military is increasing, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.
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Noting that the Taliban has been driven to desperation around Marjah in southern Afghanistan, a top US general stationed there has said that the terrorist outfit is facing an acute financial crisis. “We have intelligence that indicates to us that he (Taliban) has got a financial crisis on his hands,”…

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KABUL (AFP) – Two US soldiers in Afghanistan died Thursday after separate insurgent attacks, NATO said, compounding the bloodiest year yet for American forces in the Afghan war.
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Ten Afghan civilians were killed Thursday in a NATO airstrike on three vehicles carrying election campaign workers in northern Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai said in a statement. Karzai strongly condemned the incident, in a statement confirming earlier reports of an airstrike in which election workers were killed in Takhar province.…

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US Wednesday dismissed media reports that representatives of Af-Pak Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke recently met leaders of the Afghan Taliban and Hizb-i-Islami to discuss formation of a national government after the withdrawal of US forces from the country. “Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (Richard Holbrooke) did not meet with…

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