Posts Tagged ‘Insurgency’

Taliban deny plan for talks with Afghan govt

KABUL  - The Taliban militia leading a 10-year insurgency in Afghanistan on Wednesday denied that they would soon hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government in Saudi Arabia. “There is no truth in these published reports saying that the delegation of the Islamic Emirate would meet with representatives of the Karzai government in Saudi Arabia in the near future,” the Taliban …

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Khar says leaked US document can be ‘disregarded’

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Wednesday that a leaked U.S. military report claiming Pakistan supported the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan can be “disregarded.” “We can disregard this as a potentially strategic leak… This is old wine in an even older bottle,” she told reporters during an official visit to the Afghan capital Kabul. The U.S. military said in a secret report the …

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Pakistan foreign policy imported: Fazl

GUJRANWALA – JUI-F President Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that masses in Pakistan are not satisfied with the government and Balochistan problem should be solved on political basis.
JUI-F leader was addressing a public gathering here at Sheranwala Bagh where power outages caused security problems a number of times.
Fazl said it was due to ‘flawed policies’ that insurgency was …

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US to shift top Taliban from Gitmo to Qatar

ISLAMABAD – The United States is considering shifting five top Afghan Taliban leaders held at Guantanamo Bay (Cuba) to Qatar as part of confidence-building measures to secure peace in the insurgency ridden Afghanistan.
Well-placed diplomatic sources told The Nation on Monday that agreement to this effect was reached between the US and Afghanistan government in Kabul during the visit of US Special …

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Karzai, US embassy meets militant delegation

KABUL: A delegation from Hezb-i-Islami, one of Afghanistan’s militant groups, has met with President Hamid Karzai and US embassy officials in Kabul, officials said Tuesday. Led by former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hezb-i-Islami is the second largest militant group after the Taliban waging a 10-year insurgency against the Kabul administration and its Nato allies. [...]

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Over 560 ISAF troops die in Afghan war in 2011

KABUL: Foreign troops fighting in Afghanistan continue to pay a high toll, with more than 560 killed in 2011, the second highest number in the 10-year war against the Taliban-led insurgency. Commanders from the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) say violence is declining following the US military surge which saw an extra 33,000 troops [...]

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No Taliban at Bonn means limited hopes for peace

KABUL: The Taliban’s boycott of the Bonn conference on Afghanistan, 10 years after they were absent from its precursor, raises grave doubts about what progress it can make towards peace, experts say. The leaders of the country’s brutal, decade-long insurgency will not attend Monday’s much-heralded international talks in Germany, saying the meeting will “further ensnare [...]

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3 Afghan police die in attack by 5 suicide bombers

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Five suicide bombers attacked a local government office in eastern Afghanistan Thursday, starting a gunbattle that left three Afghan police dead and two others wounded, officials said. Three suicide bombers blew themselves up at the entrance to a compound in Zumat district, a hotbed of the insurgency along the Pakistan…

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Taliban chief asks militants not to harm civilians

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Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar says his fighters need to protect Afghan civilians from harm so that the insurgency can maintain good relations with the population. The death of civilians is on the rise in the 10-year-old war between the Taliban and Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces. The U.N. says…

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Indian army says not ‘correct’ to revoke Kashmir law

SRINAGAR: A top Indian army official says harsh emergency laws in Indian-administered Kashmir should not be revoked until Pakistan ends its “interference” in the revolt-hit region. India has long accused Pakistan of fuelling the insurgency in its part of Kashmir, a charge Islamabad denies. The nuclear-armed rivals each hold part of the scenic Himalayan region [...]

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Poverty, illiteracy are real causes of terrorism: Gilani

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Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan, United States and Afghanistan need to continue working on a joint strategy in the fight against insurgency and militancy. In an interview to Australia’s SBS television, he said, “We need cooperation and we all together have to make a strategy…

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No 1970-like insurgency in Balochistan: Raisani

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QUETTA (APP) – Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Aslam Raisani has said there was no insurgency in Balochistan like that of 1970, adding, that adequate security measures were being taken to normalise the law and order situation in the province.
According to a handout issued here on Thursday, he said this…

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Fazlullah renews threat to Swat Valley

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PESHAWAR (Reuters) – Afghanistan-based Pakistani Taliban leader Maulvi Fazlullah, a key figure in the insurgency, has vowed to return home to wage war.
“We sacrificed our lives, left our homes and villages for the sake of Sharia Law and will do whatever we can to get Sharia implemented in the…

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Fazlullah vows to renew insurgency in Pakistan

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At the time when US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is visiting Pakistan to convey tough message to high-ups for eliminating the sanctuaries of Taliban on this side of the border, the fugitive head of Swat Taliban Maulvi Fazlullah sent a fresh call of waging war against Pakistan on Friday.<br…

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Death eases fears of oil disruption

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The death of Libyan dictator Muammer Gaddafi eases the specter of a fully fledged insurgency that could disrupt oil production for years to come, energy analysts said Thursday.
Experts said news of Gaddafi’s death would have little immediate impact on the price of oil, but removed a…

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Nato wins in Afghanistan may be exaggerated: report

KABUL: The US-led Nato mission in Afghanistan may be exaggerating successes of raids designed to kill or capture insurgent leaders, a flagship strategy in the 10-year war, a report warned Thursday. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) hails the raids as one of the most effective tactics against the insurgency, but the Afghanistan Analysts Network [...]

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US retooling strategy to aid Afghan exit

Ten years after hastily going to war in Afghanistan, the United States is eyeing an honourable exit from the conflict after being forced to change strategy as it confronts a Taliban insurgency.

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