Pakistan accused of backing Taliban
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KANDAHAR -- President Hamid Karzai directly accused Pakistan's government yesterday of supporting the Taliban insurgency in his country, hours after a suicide attacker exploded himself in an Afghan governor's compound, killing eight. The attacks are aimed at undermining the government of Karzai.
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Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed Wednesday to increase cooperation after meeting with Group of Eight foreign ministers amid concerns that enmity between the neighbors is helping the Taliban inflict mounting losses on NATO troops and Afghan civilians.
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Pakistani President Pervez   Musharraf on Wednesday angrily rejected Afghan charges that he   was being soft on the Taliban and said Kabul should be doing   more to stamp out the militant threat.
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Eased-up American military operations could persuade former Taliban militants to return home from countries such as Pakistan, the chief of the U.N. refugee agency said Saturday. Thousands of Taliban supporters fled to Pakistan and Iran &#151; many with their entire families &#151; when U.S. forces and Afghan anti-Taliban militias drove them from power in late 2001 for harboring Osama bin Laden.
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Pakistan has arrested former Taliban defense minister Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, regarded as top figure in the Afghanistan insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday.
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ISLAMABAD: A Taliban splinter group on Monday accused Afghan government of dishonoring its earlier promise to release 26 Afghan prisoners, warning the Afghan government would be responsible of any to the hostages.
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Pakistan hits out at UN concerns that its nuclear weapons could fall into the hands of Islamist militants.
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Pakistan's ÂtruceÂ with militants in the lawless region bordering Afghanistan has set off concern among American analysts.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 3 -- The arrest of a senior Taliban leader in a Pakistani city long reputed to be a haven for the group kindled guarded hope among Western and Afghan security officials Friday that the government here plans to move more aggressively against insurgents taking refuge on its...
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Kabul has angrily rejected comments by   Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that the Taliban had grown   more dangerous than al Qaeda with the support of Afghans,   accusing some in Pakistan of sponsoring the rebels.
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Why Pakistan still isn't aggressively pursuing the ex -- Taliban leaders living inside the country
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Pakistan villagers said army helicopter gunships launched strikes on Sunday in an area regarded as a stronghold of a Taliban commander linked with the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
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Pakistan rejected on Saturday a U.S. official's assertion that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar are operating from Pakistani territory.
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Iran gives political and material support to President Hamid Karzai's Western-backed government, but it also may be aiding the Taliban as a way of hedging its bets in neighboring Afghanistan, NATO's top general here said Monday.
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said that some members of the security forces had turned a &quot;blind eye&quot; towards Taliban militants launching attacks in Afghanistan.
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Pakistani police arrested 17 Afghans  suspected of being Taliban militants, including a former Kabul  police chief and a provincial governor, police said on Friday.
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Pakistani pacts with pro-Taliban militants on the Afghan border have facilitated attacks on foreign troops in Afghanistan and allowed the militants to expand influence in Pakistan, a think-tank said.