Beckett begins Afghan meetings
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett was in Afghanistan Wednesday for talks amid tight security a day after a suicide blast during a visit by US Vice President Dick Cheney killed at least 14 people.
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Defence and foreign ministers arrive in Edinburgh to discuss the future of Afghanistan.
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NATO defence ministers were set Friday for a second day of contentious talks on Afghanistan amid calls led by the United States and Britain for more frontline combat troops to fight resurgent Taliban forces.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai began a  visit to neighboring Pakistan on Monday to discuss cooperation  in the battle against Islamic militants ahead of his October  re-election bid.
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British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett arrived in Pakistan Sunday for talks on tackling militants on the Afghan border ahead of an anticipated Taliban offensive, Pakistani officials said.
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Countries with troops in southern Afghanistan will discuss on Friday how to tackle rising violence by Taliban insurgents and mounting U.S. calls for bigger contributions to NATO's Afghan mission.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- New Afghan President Hamid Karzai is preparing to meet tribal leaders in a bid to step up the fight against the country&#39;s drug trade.
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The Nato summit in Riga this week will be dominated by the war it is waging against the Taleban in Afghanistan and by the concept that Nato should increasingly play a global role, says Paul Reynolds
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Ex-foreign secretary Margaret Beckett is to chair Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants  Pashtuns on both sides of the Pakistan border to work together against the Taleban.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to address tribal leaders Thursday on the need to eliminate this war-ravaged country's booming drug trade, an aide said.
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27 December 2004 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai held his first cabinet meeting today in Kabul, at which he urged ministers to work together for the future of the country.
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A 45-member delegation of tribal elders began talks with militant leaders near the Afghan border Friday in a bid to stem the spiraling violence that erupted after Islamic extremists scrapped a peace deal.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is to visit Pakistan to discuss fighting terror and boosting trade.
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The leaders of the United Nations, NATO  and Afghanistan gather in Rome this week for a conference aimed  at shoring up Kabul&#39;s &quot;law and order&quot; agenda, even as the  nation slips deeper into conflict.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to address tribal leaders Thursday on the need to eliminate this war-ravaged country&#39;s booming drug trade, an aide said.
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Text of report by Afghan Balkh Province television on 15 February  The head of the Balkh Information and Culture Department, Saleh Mohammad Khaleq, chaired a meeting of owners of city cables in Mazar- e Sharif today.