Taliban must be involved in peace process: Defence Minister
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Afghanistan&#39;s Islamist Taliban militia will have to be involved in the country&#39;s peace process, Defence Minister Des Browne told delegates at the Labour Party conference.
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Taliban opposition to NATO forces in   Afghanistan is far tougher than was expected when alliance   troops were initially deployed, British Defense Minister Des   Browne said on Tuesday.
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Hundreds of Taliban fighters could abandon their insurgency in Afghanistan as a result of peace talks under way between local commanders and President Hamid Karzai's government, a provincial governor said on Saturday.
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Afghanistan's defense minister said Tuesday his government had contacts with the Taliban to try to persuade them to lay down their arms and return to normal life, but vowed no let-up in the military campaign against them.
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NEW DELHI: Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Wednesday that progress on resolving the Kashmir issue would have to be made in tandem with progress on other issues.
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Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar purportedly said in an audiotape aired Sunday that Afghanistan&#039;s government and the U.S.-led coalition supporting it do not have the wisdom to solve the nation&#039;s crisis.
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Attacks on aid organisations in Afghanistan are inevitable, according to a government minister, who said the widespread perception that aid workers were wasting money that should be spent on Afghans was fuelling the violence.
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The Afghan government is ready for peace talks with the Taliban, but will not accept preconditions demanded by the Islamist rebels such as the withdrawal of all foreign troops, the presidential spokesman said on Tuesday.
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NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 9: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today told US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that India was ready to do more in taking forward the peace process with Pakistan if President Musharraf were to stick to his commitment on checking cross
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Defence Minister Des Browne has appealed to London's NATO allies to &quot;step up to the plate&quot; and boost their support for the military alliance's embattled mission in Afghanistan.
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Observing that the Composite Dialogue process was being pursued step-by-step, External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh today made it clear that until cross-border terrorism was stopped, talks on the Kashmir issue cannot move forward.
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Taliban opposition to NATO forces in  Afghanistan is far tougher than expected when alliance troops  were initially deployed to aid reconstruction, British Defense  Minister Des Browne will say on Tuesday.
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Taliban militants declared a cease-fire in fighting with Pakistani forces, and the government said it was preparing for peace talks with al-Qaida-linked extremists.
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The United Nations would support peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban and is prepared to help mediate, a key U.N. envoy said Friday.
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 5: British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said on Tuesday that history would judge the pace of the peace process between Pakistan and India.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said that Northern Ireland political parties must sever ties once and for all with paramilitary groups to enable the peace process to advance.
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Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed Wednesday to increase cooperation after meeting with Group of Eight foreign ministers amid concerns that enmity between the neighbors is helping the Taliban inflict mounting losses on NATO troops and Afghan civilians.