Posts Tagged ‘Taliban’

PM to discuss Afghan peace in Qatar

ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: With Doha getting ready to host a political office of the Taliban, Afghan reconciliation will be a major theme during Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s visit to Qatar next week for signing energy and investment agreements.

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Via DAWN.com

Taliban deny Mullah Omar wrote to Obama

KABUL – The Afghan Taliban denied on Saturday that the group’s leader Mullah Omar wrote to the White House last year.
The White House received a letter in 2011 which purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, asking the United States to deliver prisoners whose transfer is now central to American efforts to broker peace in Afghanistan, an Obama administration official said …

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Taliban deny their leader sent letter to Obama

The Afghan Taliban on Saturday denied that their leader Mullah Omar had written to President Barack Obama last July. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said reports that Omar had sent a letter indicating an interest in talks key to ending the war in Afghanistan were “baseless allegations.” “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is strongly condemning these rumors and allegations,” Mujahid said in …

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PM Gilani will travel to Qatar Monday for Afghan peace talk: FO

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani will travel to Qatar next week to talk with government leaders there about moves to broker a peace deal with the Afghan Taliban, Foreign Office said Saturday.
Talking to a private television on Saturday, Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit confirmed that the premier would visit Qatar next week as part of efforts to bring peace in Afghanistan.
The Prime …

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Mullah Omar sent letter to Obama to end war

WASHINGTON: Reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar wrote to President Barack Obama last year indicating an interest in talks key to ending the war in Afghanistan, current and former US officials told The Associated Press. The letter purportedly from Omar was unsigned. It was passed through a Taliban intermediary in July and was intended for [...]

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Eight troops among 32 dead in clashes

PESHAWAR  – At least 24 militants were killed and eight soldiers embraced martyrdom in Taliban attack on a checkpost in Kurram Agency and skirmishes with insurgents in Orakzai and Khyber agencies on Friday. Two hideouts of the militants were also destroyed by the security agencies during the clashes.
Seven soldiers were killed and three others wounded in an overnight attack on …

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Seven Pakistani soldiers killed in Taliban attack: officials

PESHAWAR: Seven Pakistani soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a Taliban attack on their check post in the country’s northwestern tribal belt, security officials said on Friday. The overnight attack on Shidano Dand post in the Kurram region triggered clashes in which 18 militants were also killed, a senior military official said. “Armed [...]

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Taliban modernising, says former anti-vice enforcer

Sitting cross-legged on a blood-red Afghan carpet in a house perched on a Kabul hillside, the bearded man gazes out across the sprawling city where he was once one of the most feared men in town.

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ISI aiding Afghan militants: Nato

LONDON  - Pakistan’s security services are secretly aiding Afghanistan’s Taliban, who assume their victory is inevitable once Western troops leave, a secret NATO document says, according to reports Wednesday.Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, confirmed the existence of the document, reported by …

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No hidden agenda in Afghanistan, says Hina

KABUL  – Pakistan said Wednesday it had no hidden agenda in Afghanistan and would back a peace process with the Taliban as long as it’s driven by Afghans and not other figures on the international stage.Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar visited Kabul on Wednesday to mend relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan that broke down last year when a former Afghan president who was …

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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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Taliban deny plan for Saudi talks with Afghan govt

The Taliban militia on Wednesday denied that they would soon hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government in Saudi Arabia.

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Pakistan slams Nato leak as ‘frivolous’, ‘not worth commenting’

Pakistan on Wednesday hit out angrily at a leaked Nato report accusing its security services of secretly aiding the Afghan Taliban, calling it “frivolous” and “not worth commenting on”.
“This is frivolous, to put it mildly. We are committed to non-interference in Afghanistan and expect all other states to strictly adhere to this principle,” foreign ministry …

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10 troops, 40 militants killed in battle for Kurram mountaintop

KURRAM AGENCY – At least ten soldiers and 40 militants were killed in fierce clashes erupted when Taliban attacked a security post in central Kurram Agency on Tuesday.Armed with sophisticated weapons, a group of over 200 militants attacked a newly established checkpost on strategically important mountaintop at Jogi locality in Mamozai area overlooking a route used by militants to pass into North …

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Ten soldiers, 25 militants killed in Kurram Agency clashes

Dozens of heavily armed Taliban militants attacked a Pakistani military post on Tuesday, sparking a clash that killed ten soldiers and wounded another 10, the military said. Moreover, sources said that 25 militants were also killed in the clash that took place in Kurram tribal region’s Jogi village. Independent confirmation of the death toll was not immediately possible as the lawless …

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Obama confirms drone attacks in Pakistan

US President Barrack Obama has for the first time officially acknowledged that the US drones have been hitting Taliban and al-Qaeda targets within Pakistan. When asked about the use of drones by his administration in a chat with web users on Google+ and YouTube, Obama said “a lot of these strikes have been in the FATA”, a foreign news agency reported. “For the most part, …

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