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LONDON, Pakistan News: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that there is no possibility of Taliban occupation of Pakistan, adding that Pakistan will act against Osama bin Laden if the U.S. and Britain provide substantial evidence about his... Full Article at A Pakistan News
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Members of the U.S. Army on joint patrol with Afghan National Police watch movement around a mosque in Sar Hawza, Afghanistan on Friday. Full Article at New York Daily News
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Former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi speaks during a campaign rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect new president. View Photo »
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Although strong statements are being issued against Al-Qa'ida and the Taliban, the US President has not yet decided what objectives his country has in the region. No American, Afghan, or Pakistani knows whether the US objective in Afghanistan is reconstruction, crushing insurgency, or collection of secr...
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TV grab of explosion outside a KFC outlet in Peshawar. Full Article at Indian Express
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Reporting from Nawa, Afghanistan - It's only his second day on the job after graduating from a police academy sponsored by U.S. Marines, and Khair Muhammad is stopping cars along the main road to the Nawa market to check for explosives. Full Article at Los Angeles Times
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p atrickwhiteglobeandmail.com The Afghan police laughed as they watched their Canadian mentors tread over the loose dirt as if stepping over broken glass. Full Article at Globe and Mail
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A supporters of the former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi, listens during an election campaign rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect a new president. View Photo »
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Some analysts believethat regardless of the reservations over the logic of the date of withdrawal asannounced by President Obama, the objective of the move is to draw people's attentionin the Karzai regime to eliminate rampant corruption in their government and end drug trafficking, which is the source ...
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U.S. Marine Cpl. Joseph Kelly walks past Afghan youths during a patrol near Khan Nashin in the volatile province of Helmand, southern Afghanistan, Friday. Full Article at SpokesmanReview.com
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Barack Obama’s decision to send 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan will only increase the level of violence there, claims an influential Tory MP. Full Article at Kent News
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The Taliban (Pashto: طالبان ṭālibān, also anglicised as Taleban; translation: "students") is a Sunni Islamist, predominately Pashtun movement that governed Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when its leaders were removed from power by Northern Alliance and NATO forces. Full Article
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NOW ZAD, AFGHANISTAN - APRIL 03: U.S. Marines fire 120mm mortars on Taliban positions on April 3, 2009 in Now Zad in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
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NOW ZAD, AFGHANISTAN - APRIL 03: U.S. Marines carry crates of mortars to fire on Taliban positions on April 3, 2009 in Now Zad in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
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Mullah Abdul Salam, a former high-ranking Taliban commander and now governor of Musa Qala in southern Helmand province, talks to Reuters in an interview March 28, 2009.
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Mullah Abdul Salam, a former high-ranking Taliban commander and now governor of Musa Qala in southern Helmand province, talks to Reuters in an interview March 28, 2009.
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Pakistani women rally against Taliban and Islamic militants in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday, Feb. 6, 2009. The rally is organized in protest against Talibans destroying girls schools in the troubled area of Swat in northern Pakistan.
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Gen. Dowlat Kahn, provincial head of the Afghan Nation Police (ANP) for Paktika Province, calls for cooperation in the fight against the Taliban as he speaks to village males on December 4, 2009 in Sar Hawza, Afghanistan.
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RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - Supporters of the Sunni Tehreek religious party take part in an anti-Taliban and anti-U.S. march in Lahore June 10, 2009.
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The president's new strategic concept aims to reverse the Taliban's momentum and reduce its strength while providing the time and space necessary for the Afghans to develop enough security and governance capacity to stabilize their own country ... We will focus our resources where the population is most...
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Is it in Pakistan's interest to antagonize the Afghan Taliban now, if they will be in power two or three years down the road?
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That country (Pakistan) remains a challenge -- played a key and often contradictory role in the region. Pakistan, by assisting in the pursuit of the Al Qaeda [ Images ] and the Afghan Taliban [ Images ] leaders, could help bring the war in Afghanistan to an end
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You are never going to get the Taliban out of Afghanistan. That certainly shouldn’t be the goal. Once you define the goal which is to stabilize Afghanistan, then you can bring the troops home
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The mission was not to get the Taliban out of Afghanistan. The Taliban are the children of the same people 25 years ago that Ronald Reagan called freedom fighters
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The mission was not to get the Taliban out of Afghanistan. The Taliban are the children of the same people 25 years ago that Ronald Reagan called freedom fighters
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And while our attention was focussed elsewhere, the Taliban regained momentum in Afghanistan and the extremist threat grew in Pakistan -- a country, as you know well, with 175 million people, a nuclear arsenal, and more than its share of challenges
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We are now making the case to our counterparts in Pakistan, both in the civilian and the military leadership, that the efforts they have made against the TTP (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan), primarily in Swat and now in Waziristan and the Mehsud tribal core, are necessary
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We are apparently now only at war with al Qaeda, but I fail to see how you can determine the difference between the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
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When the Taliban has success, that provides sanctuary from which al-Qaida can operate transnationally.
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Conversely, if Pakistan were to return to old habits of supporting the Afghan Taliban, the war may be almost impossible to win
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It is not clear how any expanded military effort in Afghanistan addresses the problem of Taliban and Al Qaeda safe havens across the border in Pakistan.If these safe havens persist, any strategy in Afghanistan will be substantially incomplete
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The ‘presence of Al Qaeda in Pakistan, its direct ties to and support from the Taliban in Afghanistan and the perils of an unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan that drive our mission
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Barack Obama’s intensification of the occupation of Afghanistan is nothing less than a full commitment to one side in the civil war raging there. What he calls a threat of a Taliban takeover is actually a Pashtun resistance to the U.S. occupation and the corrupt Karzai government it backs. Obama’s and H...
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What we have to do is strengthen again the local and traditional governance systems in Afghanistan that in fact can reestablish local control and deny the Taliban authority
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So it won't be necessarily that we turn over security responsibility to the Afghan National Army but rather to local authorities who have... reestablished control of their own areas from the Taliban
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They are in Pakistan. The Taliban leadership is in Pakistan. And I wanted to make sure that the focus stayed on those two elements of our concern and didn't sort of morph into a nation-building exercise that would tie us down for 10 years.
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The major insurgent groups in order of their threat to the mission [in Afghanistan] are: the Quetta Shura Taliban (QST), the Haqqani Network (HQN) and the Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin (HiG).
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And that is why, as president, I will make the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban the top priority that it should be. This is a war we have to win
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moving to the frontburner. There’s an open door for any people fighting with the Taliban to renounce al-Qaida, lay down their arms and are processed peacefully ... But let me be clear, this takes a little time. It has to be Afghan-led and it requires resources.
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The Afghan Taliban are not yet under sufficient pressure [in Pakistan] and they need to be
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It is also likely and maybe more likely that what the surge will push the Afghanistan Taliban into Pakistan
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A stable security situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, one that is sustainable over the long term by their governments, is vital to our national security. By the same token, the current status quo in Afghanistan, the slow but steady deterioration of the security situation and growing influence of the ...
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