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internet marketing RIAZ KHAN Associated Press Writer= PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) â?? Pakistani authorities are investigating whether an Islamist cleric who brokered a failed peace deal with the Taliban in the Swat Valley inappropriately aided the militants, a senior government official said Monday. Sunday’s arrest of Sufi Muhammad indicated the government won’t try to...
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One person has been killed in an attack in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, the latest in a spate of attacks against non-Balochi people in the region. Police said three others were also injured when a group of rice traders from Punjab province were attacked. An armed separatist group, the Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF), has...
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Afghan security forces backed by foreign troops killed 16 insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, the Afghan Defense Ministry said yesterday, also announcing the deaths of two soldiers as Taliban-linked violence spikes. The rebels were killed on Saturday as troops pounded their positions with artillery in the Bargi Matal district of Nuristan Province, a mountainous region...
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Joy of return tempered by army warning that many Taliban are still on the loose When Bakht Biland reached his house, having run the gauntlet of tense army checkpoints, bullet-pocked hotels and the deserted city square where the used to string up their bloodied victims, he had just one thought. “Finally,” said the 55-year-old...
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By Dene Moore, THE CANADIAN PRESS Ron Hoffmann, a Canadian diplomat sits next to an empty chair placed for Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin during an Afghan education development seminar at the foreign ministery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb 12, 2008. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Rafiq Maqbool KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Canada’s outgoing ambassador to Afghanistan...
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ISLAMABAD – Pakistani police have detained a former lawmaker and a suspected Taliban militant in connection with the beheading of a Polish geologist kidnapped near the Afghan border last year, a police official said Sunday. Investigator Malik Tariq Awan, who is part of a team of officials from police and intelligence agencies, told The...
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ISLAMABAD (AP) â?? Police in Pakistan say they are holding two men, including a former lawmaker, for the beheading of a Polish geologist kidnaped near the Afghan border last year. Police investigator Malik Tariq Awan says the two are linked to the Taliban and were arrested a month ago. He named one as Shah...
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