Trouble looms on Afghan-Pakistan border, US says
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WASHINGTON -- With new fighting expected to break out this spring in Afghanistan, the Pakistan government will soon have to decide what it can do about the tribal authorities who have not been living up to their agreement to prevent Taliban and Qaeda fighters from moving back and forth across the border, according to John Negroponte, the director of national ...
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American troops on Afghanistan's eastern frontier have seen a tripling of attacks since a truce between the Pakistani army and pro-Taliban tribesmen that was supposed to stop cross-border raids by militants, a U.S. military officer said Wednesday.
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Militant attacks in eastern Afghanistan,   near the border with Pakistan, have tripled in some areas, the   U.S. military said on Thursday, despite a peace agreement on   the Pakistani side meant to end the violence.
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The White House is pressuring Pakistan to crack down on al-Qaida and Taliban operatives in the lawless border area with Afghanistan that President Bush recently said was "wilder than the Wild West."
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Pakistan&#039;s military government challenged neighboring Afghanistan on Tuesday to identify the terror hideouts that Afghanistan claims exist in Pakistan, using a meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to make its argument.
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Al Qaeda has become entrenched in a remote corner of Pakistan, and the United States fears a military strike could spawn new militant activity in the country, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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Musharraf and Karzai may have agreed to work together, but U.S. officials acknowledge that rooting out the Taliban insurgency will be far more time consuming, expensive and complex than was originally envisioned
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Pentagon chief Robert Gates vowed Monday that the United States will not neglect Pakistan and will work with the government of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to combat the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush said yesterday that he was troubled by a US intelligence report that Al Qaeda has become entrenched in a safe haven in Pakistan's tribal region near Afghanistan.
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Threats of U.S. military action inside Pakistan to counter al-Qaida militants have highlighted the shaky relationship between these two key players in the war on terror and could escalate anti-American sentiments in this Islamic nation.
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Pakistan said Monday it has deployed hundreds of additional troops along the Afghan border to prevent militants from fleeing a major US military operation.
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Signs Al-Qaeda is regrouping and the Taliban plotting a new onslaught in Afghanistan are menacing the always sensitive US-Pakistan anti-terror alliance with new strains and scrutiny.
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The United States raised  pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to rush more troops to  Afghanistan to crush an expected Taliban offensive, saying the  coming weeks would be key in battling the insurgency.
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The White House is pressuring Pakistan to crack down on al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives in the lawless border area with Afghanistan
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US and Pakistani military cooperation along the Afghan border has grown so close that Pakistani forward observers have helped US forces direct artillery fire at rebels operating on the Pakistani side of the border, a US military official said.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is struggling to get congressional approval for millions of dollars in aid to a tribal paramilitary group in the semiautonomous region of Pakistan where Al Qaeda and the Taliban have gained such a foothold that they have been able to launch destabilizing attacks on both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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SEVILLE, Spain  - The United States raised pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to rush more troops to Afghanistan to crush an expected Taliban offensive, saying the coming weeks would be key in battling the insurgency.