Pakistanis, Afghans mull tribal talks on Taliban
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Pakistan and Afghanistan have  exchanged proposals on how to organize meetings of tribal  leaders on both sides of their restive border in an effort to  end Afghanistan's Taliban insurgency, a Pakistani official  said.
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Pro-Taliban militants in a Pakistan tribal border region with Afghanistan said Sunday they had scrapped a controversial peace accord reached with the government last year.
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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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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called a two-day meeting of tribal elders and provincial officials to discuss strategies to combat the country&#39;s burgeoning drug trade.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban and South Korean negotiators on Tuesday resumed talks on the fate of the remaining 19 Korean hostages held by the militant group in Afghanistan, provincial officials said.
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Talks aimed at freeing two Chinese engineers taken hostage by al-Qaida-linked militants in a lawless region near the Afghanistan border have broken down and tribal elders said Wednesday they would support the military using force to free the pair.
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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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Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for talks on eradicating Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters from their common border, a key issue in his bid for re-election.
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Militants threatening to kill three U.N. hostages said Afghan and U.N. officials met with go-betweens in southern Afghanistan on Sunday and suggested their release could be negotiated before the end of the day.
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Pakistan says its  Afghan refugee camps are a hotbed of support for a resurgent  Taliban and they should be closed, but it seems no one in the  Pir Alizai camp wants to go home.
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Tribal leaders in a remote area of Pakistan are trying to negotiate the release of two Chinese hostages. The engineers were abducted on Saturday along with two Pakistanis in South Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 5 -- The government of Pakistan signed a peace accord Tuesday with pro-Taliban forces in the volatile tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, agreeing to withdraw its troops from the region in return for the fighters' pledge to stop attacks inside Pakistan and across the...
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A 45-member delegation of tribal elders began talks with militant leaders near the Afghan border Friday in a bid to stem the spiraling violence that erupted after Islamic extremists scrapped a peace deal.
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Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to increase cooperation against Islamic militants operating along their border. The agreement was reached at talks in Islamabad between Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Afghanistan&#39;s President Hamid Karzai.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett was due to meet President Pervez Musharraf and other Pakistani officials here Monday for talks on the fight against Taliban militants on the Afghan border.
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Fierce fighting in a militant  infested tribal region underscored Western fears of an al Qaeda  threat radiating from Pakistan as U.S. officials met President  Pervez Musharraf for talks on Thursday.