Peshawar, April 21, 2008 : British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband has said that his country backs efforts to reconcile with Islamist militants on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. However, he also said that there is no quick solution to terrorism, either through military means or negotiations. ...
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Baghlan Province, Afghanistan, Nov. 7, 2007 : Dozens of people, including children, were receiving treatment in hospitals in northern Afghanistan today, after a suicide attack on a parliamentary delegation killed at least 50 people on November 6. It was the worst such blast in the country's histo...
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Lashkar Gah, June 9, 2008 : An Afghan reporter working for BBC radio was killed in the southern province of Helmand in Afghanistan. The body of the reporter Abdul Samad Rohani was found on Sunday and was taken to Lashkar Gah hospital in Helmand. Rohani worked for BBC radio and was reporting on a...
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Islamabad, Dec 27th 2007: Afghan President Hamid Karzai held talks with Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf regarding cooperation against terrorism on December 26th on his two day official visit to Pakistan. Addressing a news conference after the talk with Karzai, Musharraf said that the leaders...
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Kabul, June 15, 2008 : Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai threatened on Sunday to pursue Taliban militants into neighbouring Pakistan if they continued cross border attacks into Afghanistan. The self proclaimed Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and other Taliban officials in recent week...
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Orly/ Kabul, August 21, 2008 : An emotional President Sarkozy insisted yesterday that there would be no French wobble over Afghanistan, urging troops in Kabul to fight with fresh resolve after the loss of ten comrades. Ten soldiers were killed in a major battle that erupted when Taliban insurgent...
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United States, Dec 22, 2007 : US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has stated that infiltration by Al-Qaida militants into Afghanistan has come down as the ‘fighters’ are now focusing on attacks against the Pakistan government. But the Pentagon chief said Al Qaeda's activities in Pakistan have not y...
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Khost, June 23, 2008 : A woman and three children were killed by the rockets that were fired from Pakistan. The rockets were launched from about 300 metres inside Pakistan territory and it landed near the NATO base in Afghanistan. Tension has mounted between the two neighbours with Pakistan sayin...
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Islamabad/Karachi, September 10, 2008 : Asif Ali Zardari along with his three children and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, on Tuesday attended the swearing-in ceremony. The new Pakistani president said that tackling surging militant violence in the country was a priority, and reminded peop...
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Kabul, September 10, 2008 : A United States decision to increase troop numbers in Afghanistan has received a cautious response in Kabul following a spate of recent military operations. Afghanistan’s Member of Parliament, Ramazan Bashardost, said that the American government needed to be clear abo...
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Joe Klein discusses his reporting about Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, who was on TIME’s short list for Person of the Year
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