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Taliban promise to capture, kill Prince Harry

The Taliban have now revealed their determination to catch the prince dead or alive.

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Prince Harry should help people in Afghan: Taliban

The statement comes in the wake of the Prince qualifying as an Apache attack helicopter pilot.

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Pak denies Gilani meeting with Taliban in Qatar

Pakistan refuted media reports suggesting a meeting between Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Af...

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`Pak for Afghan-led reconciliation process in Afghanistan`

Pakistani PM`s visit is aimed at strengthening ties with Qatar in multiple areas including import of...

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Taliban reject UN report on civilian deaths

Afghan`s Taliban insurgents rejected as political a UN report blaming them for more than three quart...

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Military return a distant dream for Afghan Taliban

With an estimated 25,000 fighters at the most, the Taliban is hugely outnumbered by NATO and Afghan ...

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Afghan officials try to open Kabul airport

Kabul airport has been closed for more than a day because of a half-meter of snow.

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`Mullah Omar didn’t send letter to Obama`

The Afghan Taliban are denying their leader Mullah Omar wrote to President Barack Obama last July.

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Pakistan PM to visit Qatar to talk Afghan peace

Pakistan is an important player in moves to end the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan.

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`Taliban leader Omar sent letter to Barack Obama`

The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar.

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Bomb blast kills three in Peshawar

3 people were killed after a car bomb went off outside the house of an anti-Taliban tribal elder in ...

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Taliban modernising, says ex anti-vice enforcer

Maulavi Qalamuddin is former chief of the Taliban`s "vice and virtue" squad which whipped women with...

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Pakistan clashes kill 8 soldiers, 18 militants

Kurram is one of the seven Pakistani border regions where the military has battled for several years...

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Don`t jump the gun on Afghan pullout: US expert

The building blocks for genuine peace and stability in Afghanistan are simply not yet in place, said...

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Hina Khar`s visit to Kabul good, well-timed: US

On Wednesday, Hina Rabbani Khar visited the Kabul to mend relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan...

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Pakistan causing problems in Afghanistan: US

David Petraeus doubts the "willingness" of Pakistan to go after the militant groups enjoying sanctua...

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NATO ministers mull speeded-up Afghan drawdown

Leon Panetta said NATO allies have agreed broadly to step back from the lead combat role in Afghanis...

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Pak willing to nudge Taliban for talks if Kabul wa

A leaked NATO report this week had alleged that Pakistan`s military-run ISI maintains close relatio...

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NATO ministers mull Afghan drawdown

The US and France have called for speeding up the handover of combat roles to local forces.

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Pakistan willing to push Taliban to make peace

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said Pakistan holds the only key to making peace with the Taliban.

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Nothing new in NATO Taliban report: Hillary

Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar dismissed the NATO report as "old wine in even older bot...

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US plans to end Afghan combat role stun Kabul

Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said the US would stop combat operations in Afghanistan before the en...

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`NATO report an old wine in an even older bottle’

Pakistan has strongly turned down a NATO report about Islamabad`s alleged links to the Afghan Taliba...

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`NATO report shouldn’t affect US-Pak ties’

The US has reportedly expressed its deep concerns over links between Pakistan’s ISI and some extremi...

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`US’ objective is to dismantle al Qaeda`

The goal of the US is to give Afghanistan government the breathing room necessary to build up its ar...

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`US’ combat role in Afghanistan to end in 2013`

All NATO members in November 2010 endorsed a plan to keep forces in Afghanistan until the end of 201...

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Cut off ISI-Taliban links, US tells Pakistan

The US on Wednesday said it has "long standing concerns" over ISI`s links with the Taliban.

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Pakistan says it will back Afghan-led peace talks

Pakistan`s foreign minister says her country has no hidden agenda in Afghanistan.

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Taliban deny plan for Saudi talks with Afghan govt

Taliban negotiators have begun preliminary discussions with the United States in Qatar.

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Taliban `poised to retake Afghanistan` post NATO

The US military said in a secret report that the Taliban, backed by Pak are set to retake Afghanista...

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Will not agree to peace talks ceasefire: Taliban

The Taliban in Afghanistan said on Wednesday they would not agree to a U.S. demand for a ceasefire a...

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Heavy fighting in Pak tribal areas kills dozens

Pakistani fighter jets bombed militant hideouts in tribal areas near the Afghan border on Wednesday.

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US confirms possible release of Taliban from Gitmo

U.S. intelligence officials acknowledged Tuesday that the United States may release several Afghan T...

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Pak exposed, ISI backing Taliban: NATO report

A leaked NATO report says, the Taliban are being directly assisted by Pakistan’s ISI, in carrying ou...

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`Afghan govt,Taliban to hold talks in Saudi`

The talks in Saudi will be separate from the US-brokered meetings held in Qatar.

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Afghanistan to press Pak for access to Taliban

Pakistan is seen as critical to US efforts to stabilize Afghanistan before foreign combat troops lea...

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`US, Taliban prisoner release talks fail in Qatar’

For record sake, the United States has neither confirmed nor denied the reports of such a peace talk...

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‘Aghan Prez Karzai seeks Taliban talks in Saudi’

A member of the Taliban`s leadership council, Quetta Shura, also backed the report of talks in Saud...

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Pak’s Khar to visit Kabul for talks on Taliban

Hina Rabbani Khar will become the first Pakistani woman politician to lead a delegation to Afghanist...

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`US officials hold talks with Taliban in Qatar’

The discussions between US and Taliban centred around release of the Afghan militant group`s prisone...

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Taliban kidnap Afghan peace council member

Mavlawi Shafihullah Shafih had travelled from Kabul to meet insurgents and encourage them to join th...

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Taliban willing to compromise: Afghan negotiators

Senior Afghan peace negotiators believe the Taliban are willing to significantly soften past hardlin...

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Did Marc Grossman meet Taliban in Qatar?

Special US Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman appears to have met Taliban rep...

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Didn`t sideline Pak in Taliban peace talks: US

There are sentiments inside Pakistan that it was being sidelined by the Obama administration in peac...

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Pakistan troops kill 20 militants in northwest

A Pakistani government official said the fighting began when a group of Pakistani militants attacked...

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Taliban rocket kills woman, child in Afghanistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and NATO`s commander for Afghanistan, General John Allen, condemned th...

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Pak gets info on Afghan Taliban-US talks in Qatar

The Afghan Taliban have provided Pakistan the "functional blueprint" of their formal talks with US ...

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Marine video led to killing of French troops

The 21-year-old Afghan recruit had viewed the video that was widely distributed on YouTube and other...

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`Taliban`s momentum broken, Qaeda network falling`

The momentum of Taliban has been broken and remaining al Qaeda operatives are scrambling to escape ...

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‘Too early to say Taliban’s hand in French deaths’

A NATO spokesman said Tuesday it was too early to conclude that the Taliban were involved in the ki...

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