Afghans Lionize Masood on Anniversary of His Death
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More than 20,000 Afghans gathered in  Kabul on Wednesday to remember Northern Alliance military  commander Ahmad Shah Masood, slain by al Qaeda operatives two  days before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
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takes an oath together with Vice President Ahmad Zia Masoud (L) and Vice President Abdul Karim Khalili during the inauguration in Kabul&#39;s Presidential Palace, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2004.
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Afghan children and US soldiers were among six people reported killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, a week after millions voted in a landmark election they hope will bring peace back to their war-ravaged nation.
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About 30,000 Afghans rallied at what was once a Taliban execution center in Kabul on Friday to press President Hamid Karzai to approve a blanket amnesty for 25 years of war crimes.
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Many among the mourners chanted for justice and blamed the government for their heroine's death. Others jostled to get a last glimpse of the flag-draped coffin. Some simply wept and hugged each other.
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Up to 30,000 people attend the funeral of a Bangladeshi opposition politician killed in a grenade attack in Dhaka.
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More than 2,000 people joined the family of Margaret Hassan in Westminster Cathedral yesterday at a memorial service for the aid worker who was murdered while a hostage in Iraq.
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The last king of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, was buried on Tuesday at a state funeral where thousands bid farewell to the monarch remembered for his peaceful reign who became known as the "father of the nation".
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Hundreds of people rallied across war-scarred Afghanistan Friday to call for an end to violence on the United Nations&#39; Day of Peace, as fighting linked to a Taliban-led insurgency continued.
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The beat-up video camera was delivered to Afghanistan in a box, and picked up by two clean-shaven Arabs posing as journalists. They met with Osama bin Laden before leaving on their mission &#151; to kill mujahedeen hero Ahmad Shah Massood.
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Abdul Razaq stands among the menfolk of this dusty village of Afghan nomads and rejoices that democracy has at last come to his country after more than two decades of warfare.
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ISLAMABAD: The 128th birth anniversary of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was celebrated nationwide including Azad Kashmir with respect and admiration on Saturday.
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U.S. forces and their allies in Afghanistan remembered the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in somber fashion Saturday, conscious that the war on terror will be a long one.
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US President George W. Bush mourned Afghanistan&#39;s last king Mohammed Zahir Shah, who died Monday aged 92, as a &quot;monumental figure&quot; in his country&#39;s history.
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TORONTO, Sept. 11 -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper sought to bolster flagging public support for the five-year-old war in Afghanistan, where 32 Canadian soldiers have been killed.
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BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan  - U.S. forces and  their allies in Afghanistan remembered the third anniversary of  the Sept. 11 attacks in somber fashion Saturday, conscious that  the war on terror will be a long one.
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Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims, scarred by 15 years of violence, have celebrated Eid al-Fitr, days after India announced it will reduce the number of troops in the disputed Himalayan territory.