Taliban Commander Emerges As Pakistan's 'Biggest Problem'
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan. 9 -- Even as his reputation has grown more menacing and his militia more powerful, the Taliban commander accused of ordering the death of Benazir Bhutto has shrouded himself in mystery.
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In Peshawar, where frustration is high over President Musharraf's inability to stop rising insecurity, law-and-order issues could shape the outcome of Feb. 18 election.
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Taliban groups based in Pakistan could pose significant international terrorism threat, analysts at a leading thinktank warn
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Pakistani security forces captured and wounded top Afghan Taliban commander Mullah Mansoor Dadullah in southwestern Pakistan early on Monday, a police chief said.
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A &amp;quot;very important&amp;quot; Taliban commander was captured in some of the fiercest fighting in Afghanistan in years that has left nearly 200 rebels dead, officials said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A top Taliban commander said yesterday the group has 4,000 fighters bracing to rebuff NATO's largest-ever offensive in southern Afghanistan, now in its second day.
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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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There are greater numbers of Taliban rebels putting up a fight in southern Afghanistan than expected by the newly-deployed British military, a senior commander said.
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Pakistani security forces have  captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city  of Quetta, a senior Pakistani security official and Taliban  sources said on Thursday.
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A man described as the Taliban's new top field commander has vowed to liberate Afghanistan from "American slavery," a pro-Taliban cleric said Saturday.
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Pakistan's government is equipping and  sending militants into Afghanistan, a state-run Afghan paper  said on Wednesday, the harshest criticism yet against Islamabad  in the face of the bloodiest violence since the Taliban's fall.
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The one-eyed Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who heads the religious militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is living in Pakistan, though not in the same area where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is thought to be, according to a U.S. intelligence source.
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The former Taliban commander and chief of the militants in Pakistan&#39;s South Waziristan tribal area, Abdullah Mehsud, has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of two Chinese
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Pakistan was braced on Saturday for reprisals from militants after the capture of one of the Taliban's three most senior leaders earlier this week.
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Pakistani security forces captured one of the Taliban's three most senior leaders just hours after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's unannounced visit to Pakistan earlier this week, a senior security official and Taliban sources said.
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A plan that could authorize more aggressive operations follows concern that Al Qaeda and the Taliban hope to destabilize the Pakistani government, officials said.
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A top Taliban commander said Wednesday the group has 4,000 fighters bracing to rebuff NATO's largest-ever offensive in southern Afghanistan, now in its second day. Suicide bombers are ready, land mines have been planted and helicopters will be targeted, Mullah Abdul Qassim, a top Taliban commander in Helmand province told The Associated Press.