Pakistani Taliban leader refuses to be taken alive
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A Pakistani Taliban leader blew himself up to avoid arrest by government forces near the Afghan border on Tuesday, three years after his release from U.S. detention in Guantanamo Bay, officials said.
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Officials in Afghanistan were trying to establish whether a seriously wounded one-legged militant captured after a gun battle was Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah.
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Pakistan has vowed to track down the leader of a kidnap group in South Waziristan after one of two Chinese hostages died in a rescue attempt.
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Pakistan arrested a former Taliban defense minister regarded as a top figure in the Afghan insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday. Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, considered a key associate of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, is the most senior leader from the hard-line militia to be arrested since U.S.-led troops ousted it from power in 2001.
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Senior figure and leader of Taliban in Helmand province dies of injuries in south-west Pakistan
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PakistanÂs president tried to convince President Bush today that he was not backing away from fighting the Taliban.
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Pakistani forces captured and wounded a top Taliban commander Monday, while Islamabad's ambassador to Afghanistan was feared abducted in a troubled tribal border region, officials said.
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Pakistan has rejected suggestions that it is not doing enough to stop attacks in Afghanistan by Taleban fighters and suspected members of al-Qaeda.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 17 -- Since winter, the Taliban had been promising a spring offensive. It didn't come. Instead, NATO and U.S. forces have pounded the group's positions and killed its senior leadership.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan has arrested former Taliban defense minister Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, regarded as a top figure in the Afghanistan insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official said today.
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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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Dozens killed as troops encircle mountain base of Taliban chief linked to Bhutto killing
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The governmentâs siege of a radical mosque in the center of Islamabad continued for a fourth day after the remaining clericâs offer to surrender was rejected.
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Pakistan braced for reprisals on Saturday, with police on alert for suicide attacks in the city where a senior Taliban leader was captured this week.
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Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is alive but the trail is "completely cold", Pakistan President Musharraf admits.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani security forces have arrested an Afghan militant leader who allegedly masterminded
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The government has denied allegations by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib that an Australian official stood by while he was being tortured in Pakistan after his arrest there in late 2001.