Pakistan-based Taliban 'pose global risk'
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Taliban groups based in Pakistan could pose significant international terrorism threat, analysts at a leading thinktank warn
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A plan that could authorize more aggressive operations follows concern that Al Qaeda and the Taliban hope to destabilize the Pakistani government, officials said.
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Regional and factional leaders pose as much of a threat to Afghanistan&#39;s elections as a Taliban insurgency, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
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A senior U.S. military commander urged Pakistan yesterday to crack down on an entrenched network of senior Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders, training camps and recruiting grounds -- a sanctuary from which fighters have tripled cross-border attacks since September and are preparing an anticipated major spring offensive in southern and eastern Afghanistan....
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has conceded that some border guards had turned a &quot;blind eye&quot; towards Taliban militants launching attacks in Afghanistan.
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President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan said that after the Sept. 11 attacks the United States threatened to bomb his country if it did not cooperate with America's war campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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A Taliban spokesman warned Tuesday that militants would increase attacks against restaurants in Kabul frequented by Westerners
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Islamic militants threatened to attack Germany and Austria unless the two European nations break ranks with the U.S. and withdraw their personnel from Afghanistan, according to a Web statement.
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A Pakistan government statement disputed what it calls a "ludicrous" CNN report that said Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who heads the religious militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is living in Pakistan.
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Some critics warn that the peace deal with tribal elders sets a dangerous precedent and represents a capitulation to the Taliban.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf  warned the West on Tuesday that Taliban insurgents were a more  dangerous terrorist force than al Qaeda because of the broad  support they have in Afghanistan.
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Islamist militants threatened to attack Germany and Austria if they do not pull their troops out of Afghanistan, in a statement posted on Sunday on an Internet site used by Al-Qaeda linked militants.
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ISLAMABAD , Pakistan -- Government 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 foreign policy think-tank said.
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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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The rise of Taliban resistance in southern Afghanistan reflects the weakness of the government more than a strengthening of the fundamentalist movement that once sheltered Osama bin Laden, the top U.S. commander here said Tuesday.
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The arrest of 14 Islamic extremists in Barcelona points up the growing concern that the jihadist threat on the continent is coming from Pakistan and not just North Africa
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Since winter, the Taliban had been promising a spring offensive. It didn't come. Instead, NATO and US forces have pounded the group's positions, and killed its senior leadership.