The Face of Pakistan's New Taliban
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Baitullah Mehsud is accused of killing Benazir Bhutto. But his agenda is more ambitious than that
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Pervez Musharraf's war on al-Qaeda and on Pakistan's domestic extremists has earned him many enemies
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A man identified on tape as the Taliban's new top field commander warned yesterday that recruits were volunteering as suicide bombers and that fighters would continue their holy war until Western powers leave Afghanistan.
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Sometime in mid-December, as the winter winds howled across the snow-dusted hills of Pakistan's inhospitable border regions, 40 men representing Taliban groups all across Pakistan's northwest frontier came together to unify under a single banner and to choose a leader.
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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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Long-haired militants with assault rifles and walkie-talkies guard the approach to the stronghold of Maulana Fazlullah, the radical cleric whose mission to spread fundamentalist Islam has provoked a bloody showdown with Pakistan's government.
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Pakistan, criticized by some Afghan   leaders over cross-border infiltration by the Taliban, vowed on   Wednesday to help its neighbor fight terrorism as Afghanistan   battles its worst violence in five years.
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ISLAMABAD , Pakistan -- Government pacts with pro-Taliban militants on the Afghan border have facilitated attacks on foreign troops in Afghanistan and allowed the militants to expand influence in Pakistan, a foreign policy think-tank said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The appointment of a close ally of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as the country&#39;s new prime minister has been criticized as showing the &quot;rule of oppression.
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Los Angeles Times - BAMIAN, Afghanistan &#8212; Archeologist Zemaryalai Tarzi can barely bring himself to look at the ravaged cliff face where two ancient Buddhas towered until the Taliban infamously blasted them to bits.
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DEAR readers, Pakistan is installing its new prime minister today, and I hope he will turn a new leaf in the countryâs often shaky styles of governance.
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Obituary: A victim, but also a culprit in a way, of Pakistan's chronic instability
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Plagued by mounting attacks by Islamist militants loyal to al Qaeda, Pakistan now faces a second wave of violence as its minority Shi'ite Muslims prepare for their annual mourning period.
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Pakistani pacts with pro-Taliban militants on the Afghan border have facilitated attacks on foreign troops in Afghanistan and allowed the militants to expand influence in Pakistan, a think-tank said.
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A group calling itself the Army of Muslims - said to be a new military arm of the Taliban â-laimed responsibility Thursday for the abduction of Filipino diplomat Angelito Nayan and two other United Nations election workers in Afghanistan, Al-Jazeera
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Some are al-Qaida, some are Taliban and others are homegrown. But all of Pakistan's militants share a vision and unshakable beliefs that include a ban on a woman leading the nation and opposition to a close alliance with America.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, had just consoled the father of a 16-year-old suicide bomber when he spoke of his religious compulsion to drive American forces out of Pashtun tribal lands.