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News Source: International Business Times
| 5 months ago
In the latest moves to reduce tensions, top foreign ministry officials of India and Pakistan are expected to meet in Italy this week although hopes of any progress are thin. India has been invited to G8 foreign ministers' meeting in Italy's Trieste...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 5 months ago
National Security Advisor General Jim Jones, center, meets Afghan presidential candidates, from right to left, Ashraf Ghani, a former finance minister, Abdullah Abdullah, a former foreign minister and Mirwais Yasini, a former deputy speaker of...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Pakistan Thursday asked the United States to review its policy of drone attacks in its northwest tribal region, saying the attacks are counterproductive. "We would continue to convey the concern of the people of Pakistan to the United States,"...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
India blames the Mumbai attack on terrorists who were trained in and came from Pakistan. New Delhi has expressed frustration with Islamabad, accusing it of not doing enough to prosecute those deemed responsible for planning the Mumbai attack. Indian...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
Mehsud was not at the spot at the time of Tuesday's attack, but had gone to pay his respects to a Taliban commander killed in another American drone strike earlier the same day, a Pakistani security official told the New York Times. Though the strike...
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News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 5 months ago
Washington: A leading US daily bribed the Taliban several times to set free one its staffers and his associate, who were kidnapped in Afghanistan last year, it has been learnt. According to the ABC News, The New York Times purportedly bribed Taliban...
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News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
Thousands of American troops are being poured into southern Afghanistan to break the "stalemate" in the region, the senior British commander in the country said today. General Jim Dutton, deputy commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, denied that...
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News Source: Times of India
| 5 months ago
The Taliban operating in Pakistan pose a "real threat" to India, the region and the world, defence minister A K Antony said on Thursday. "The Taliban are a threat to world peace, our region and a real threat to India," he told reporters here on the...
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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 5 months ago
The United States is winding down efforts to destroy poppy fields in Afghanistan, the US regional envoy said, blaming the zealous approach for pushing farmers toward the Taliban. Richard Holbrooke, the special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said...
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News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| 5 months ago
President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law a $106 billion measure to fulfill his plans to wind down the war in Iraq and ramp up operations in Afghanistan where fighting against militants is intensifying. The bill contains $79.9 billion to...