Pakistan unsure if missing envoy kidnapped
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Pakistani authorities said on Tuesday they didn't know whether their ambassador to Afghanistan had been kidnapped, a day after he went missing in a Pakistani tribal region plagued by bandits and militants.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The reported capture of the former Taliban defense minister will probably boost Pakistan's antiterrorism credentials and deliver a setback to the insurgent movement, but some doubt it will curb militant violence.
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Australia&#39;s Prime Minister, John Howard says the government can&#39;t confirm whether any Australians are missing in Iraq. There are reports that two Australian security workers and two people described as East Asians have been kidnapped.
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Iraqi officials struggled today to clear up confusion over whether the most wanted member of Saddam Husseinâs ousted dictatorship had been captured in a shoot-out north of Baghdad.
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The employer of two Chinese engineers kidnapped in Pakistan was hopeful they would be released as their abductors were targeting neither the company nor Chinese, a spokesman for the firm said on Monday.
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A senior advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's government was abducted by unknown gunmen in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, Abbas's Fatah faction said.
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Three UN workers kidnapped in Kabul are probably not being held by Islamic militants, the Afghan authorities say.
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The fate of a British hostage remains unclear amid conflicting reports around the release of an Iraqi prisoner.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 31 -- Negotiations on a power-sharing arrangement between Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto appeared to stall on Friday, with officials expressing doubt that a deal could be reached.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month has been released by his captors but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remain unclear.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remained unclear.
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The fate of three UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan remains unclear nearly two weeks after suspected Islamic militants abducted them.
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A foreign soldier went missing on Wednesday in Afghanistan and the country's Taliban movement said it had kidnapped him.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani officials dismissed a top US counterterrorism official's contention of progress in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, saying yesterday that Pakistan does not have any information on the Al Qaeda leader's whereabouts.
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Pakistan rejected as &quot;politicking&quot; a US official's weekend claim that Osama bin Laden was close to being captured.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month has been released by his captors but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including Briton Kenneth Bigley threatened with beheading, remains unclear.
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Pakistan rejected foreign help in investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Saturday, despite controversy over the circumstances of her death and three days of paralyzing turmoil.