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News of South Asia (Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc.)Saturday, July 4PESHAWAR, Pakistan, July 4 (UPI) -- A deadly crash of a military transport helicopter in Pakistan may have been caused by overcrowding, an expert says. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 4 (UPI) -- British troops moving into Afghanistan's restive Helmand province say they're encountering little resistance from Taliban insurgents. |
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| Friday, July 3ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 3 (UPI) -- At least 26 members of the Pakistani armed forces died Friday when a military transport helicopter crashed in the Northwest Frontier province, officials said. MOSCOW, July 3 (UPI) -- Russian leaders have agreed to allow U.S. military planes carrying troops and equipment to use their country's airspace, officials said Friday. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 3 (UPI) -- U.S. troops may face a tough time wresting Afghan provinces from Taliban control as many villagers have accepted the militants' rules, local leaders say. |
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| Thursday, July 2KABUL, Afghanistan, July 2 (UPI) -- A missing U.S. soldier thought to have been captured in southeastern Afghanistan has been sold to a militant clan, a U.S. military official said Thursday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 2 (UPI) -- Mullah Fazlullah, the notorious Taliban leader in Pakistan's Swat Valley, was seriously wounded in a military attack, Pakistan's interior minister told the BBC. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 2 (UPI) -- Pakistan's Kurram Agency Thursday awaited calm after a reported cease-fire among warring factions as troops began deploying there to fight the Taliban. |
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| Wednesday, July 1KABUL, Afghanistan, July 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Marine-led assault in Afghanistan's Helmand province is designed to wrest control of the poppy-growing region from the Taliban, the military said. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 1 (UPI) -- About 4,000 U.S. troops and 650 Afghan soldiers are going after the Taliban in Afghanistan's Helmand province in a "major operation," the U.S. military said. |
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| Tuesday, June 30MIRAMSHAH, Pakistan, June 30 (UPI) -- Jet bombers hit Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area Tuesday, killing seven people, residents and other sources said. NEW YORK, June 26 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai appears poised to win re-election even though most voters view him largely as a failure, political observers say. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 30 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan government, after claiming a crushing victory last month over Tamil Tiger rebels, may offer amnesty to some rebel suspects, an official said. |
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| Monday, June 29ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 29 (UPI) -- Secret U.S. drone flights will provide surveillance data to Pakistani military in its campaign against Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 28 (UPI) -- An ambush on a military convoy by militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region killed 12 soldiers, military officials said. |
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| Sunday, June 28PARACHINAR, Pakistan, June 28 (UPI) -- At least 33 people were killed and 65 others wounded in sectarian fighting in Pakistan's Kurram region bordering Afghanistan, local officials said. |
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| Friday, June 26ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 26 (UPI) -- Visiting U.S. national security adviser Gen. James Jones praised the Pakistani government's anti-terrorist campaign, the state-run news agency said. NEW YORK, June 26 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai appears poised to win re-election even though most voters view him largely as a failure, political observers say. |
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| Thursday, June 25ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 25 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government is concerned the Taliban, driven out of the Swat Valley, might try to regroup in the south, the interior minister said. |
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| Wednesday, June 24KABUL, Afghanistan, June 24 (UPI) -- Former terrorism detainees at the U.S. Bagram military base in Afghanistan say they were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs. |
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| Tuesday, June 23KABUL, Afghanistan, June 23 (UPI) -- The value of good government has become a theme for Western officials with the approach of Afghanistan's August presidential election, analysts say. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 23 (UPI) -- A Gallup Poll conducted late last year in Afghanistan indicated President Hamid Karzai was the most trusted figure in the country, the pollsters said Tuesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 23 (UPI) -- Qari Zainuddin, a rival of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, was shot and killed Tuesday in the northwest region, the victim's aide told Geo TV. |
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| Monday, June 22ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 22 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, in an opinion piece in The Washington Post, appealed for more assistance from the West to help Pakistan fight terrorists. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 22 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military says its operation against the Taliban in the Swat Valley area is in its final stage, with 1,592 terrorists killed thus far. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 22 (UPI) -- Mustafa Abul-Yazeed, al-Qaida's leader in Afghanistan, says the group would use Pakistan's nuclear weapons against the United States if it possessed them. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. policy for airstrikes in Afghanistan will be curtailed to help reduce the number of civilian deaths, the U.S. troop commander in the country said. |
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| Sunday, June 21KABUL, Afghanistan, June 21 (UPI) -- An attack on the United States' Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan resulted in the deaths of two NATO soldiers and the wounding of six others, officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 21 (UPI) -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed and six others wounded Sunday in a rocket attack inside a heavily fortified compound in Afghanistan, the military said. SEOUL, June 21 (UPI) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak told political leaders Saturday he discussed with U.S. President Barack Obama sending Korean troops to Afghanistan. |
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| Saturday, June 20KABUL, Afghanistan, June 20 (UPI) -- A soldier serving with the Welsh Guards in Afghanistan has become the 169th member of the British military to be killed there, officials said Saturday. New York Times reporter David Rohde escaped from his Taliban captors in Pakistan and has found his way to freedom, the newspaper said Saturday. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 20 (UPI) -- New York Times reporter David Rohde escaped from his Taliban captors in Pakistan and has found his way to freedom, the newspaper said Saturday. WASHINGTON, June 20 (UPI) -- U.S. airstrikes that accidentally killed at least 26 Afghanistan civilians in May were "appropriate," a Defense Department report indicates. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 20 (UPI) -- Pakistani officials announced the military campaign against the Taliban in the Swat Valley is almost finished and said residents may begin coming home Saturday. |
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| Friday, June 19ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 19 (UPI) -- Missile strikes at suspected militant hideouts In Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area killed several people, authorities said. |
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| Thursday, June 18ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 18 (UPI) -- Pakistani troops killed 22 militants and arrested 17 others during a 24-hour period, the military said Wednesday. |
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| Wednesday, June 17KABUL, Afghanistan, June 17 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will face a key challenge from two of his former ministers in his bid for another term in the country's Aug. 20 elections. |
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| Monday, June 15KABUL, Afghanistan, June 15 (UPI) -- The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says troops must ensure the safety of main population centers while fighting Taliban militants. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 15 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal took command of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan Monday during a ceremony in Kabul. |
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| Sunday, June 14ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 14 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military, encouraged by recent successes against the Taliban, plans to go after the group's leader, Baitullah Mehsud, an official said. |
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| Saturday, June 13ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 13 (UPI) -- Pakistan is building an army garrison in the Swat Valley and raising the pay of soldiers fighting militants in Malakand, President Asif Ali Zardari said. |
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| Friday, June 12KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 12 (UPI) -- A British soldier has been killed in a southern Afghanistan explosion, the British Ministry of Defense announced Friday. NEW DELHI, June 12 (UPI) -- India plans to withdraw its troops from counterinsurgency operations in Kashmir, for years a disputed territory and battlefield, India's home minister says. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, June 12 (UPI) -- Violence hit Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday with casualties reported, two days after a huge explosion at the city's Pearl Continental Hotel killed at least 16. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 12 (UPI) -- A U.N. official says many of the tens of thousands of displaced Sri Lankan Tamils may still be in shelters a year from now despite government promises. |
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| Wednesday, June 10PESHAWAR, Pakistan, June 10 (UPI) -- The death toll from the suicide bombing of a posh hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan, rose to 16 as crews pulled more bodies from the debris, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 10 (UPI) -- Pakistanis in the Taliban-ravaged northwest region have taken up arms to support their military's offensive against the militants, a minister said. |
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| Tuesday, June 9KABUL, Afghanistan, June 8 (UPI) -- Up to 60 Taliban militants died in Afghanistan during the past week as more U.S. troops arrived in the country, Afghan security officials said. |
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| Monday, June 8COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 8 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka says a cargo ship it suspected of carrying military supplies for Tamil rebels contains only food, medical items and similar goods. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 8 (UPI) -- U.S. efforts to mold an effective fighting force in Afghanistan have been plagued by lack of resources and shaky loyalty among troops, interviews show. |
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| Saturday, June 6WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- Pakistan diverted U.S. aid meant for fighting Taliban terrorists to bolster its conventional warfare capabilities against India, documents indicate. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 6 (UPI) -- A meeting between U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani included a plea for debt forgiveness, officials said. SAKHAKOT, Pakistan, June 6 (UPI) -- Two leaders of a Pakistani Islamic militant group were slain when a prisoner convoy they were riding in was attacked, officials said Saturday. |
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| Friday, June 5LONDON, June 5 (UPI) -- A 19-year-old rifleman from Reading has become the 137th British serviceman to die from hostile fire in Afghanistan, the military says. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 5 (UPI) -- Residents used a break in a curfew to flee their homes in Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan Friday, following evacuation orders, officials said. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, June 5 (UPI) -- Pakistani Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani says the monthslong military offensive in the Swat Valley in the country's northwest has blunted Taliban resistance there. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 5 (UPI) -- The prolonged Taliban insurgency in Pakistan may be turning the people, especially those hit by its brutality, against the militants, observers say. |
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| Thursday, June 4ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 4 (UPI) -- The United States has given more than half of all the aid Pakistan has received to help its displaced persons in the northwest, envoy Richard Holbrooke said. |
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| Wednesday, June 3ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 3 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden purportedly saying U.S. policy in Pakistan foments hate is just more of the same old rhetoric, the White House said Wednesday. WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- To win the war in Afghanistan, allied forces must try hard to avoid civilian casualties, says the U.S. general nominated to take command of NATO forces there. |
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| Tuesday, June 2LONDON, June 2 (UPI) -- Britain and other European Union nations sold military equipment to Sri Lanka in the last years of its war against Tamil rebels, documents indicate. |
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| Monday, June 1NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says there were "unacceptably high" civilian casualties in the final battle between the Sri Lankan military and Tamil Tigers. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 1 (UPI) -- Pakistan's offensive against Islamic extremists in the country's northwest, coupled with U.S. drone missile attacks, is disrupting al-Qaida, sources say. |
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| Sunday, May 31KABUL, Afghanistan, May 31 (UPI) -- U.S.-led coalition troops Sunday killed 10 militants who ambushed a combat patrol in Afghanistan's Farah province, military officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 31 (UPI) -- At least 40 Taliban fighters and four Pakistani security officers were killed in an eight-hour gun battle in South Waziristan, government officials said. |
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| Saturday, May 30KABUL, Afghanistan, May 30 (UPI) -- Two British special forces squadrons have deployed to Afghanistan for covert operations against the Taliban, military officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 30 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan officials say a published report claiming more than 20,000 civilians were killed during their attack on Tamil rebels is totally false. |
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| Friday, May 29COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 29 (UPI) -- Subramaniam Shivathai, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam women's force, has been arrested in Sri Lanka, police said Friday. DHAKA, Bangladesh, May 29 (UPI) -- An acute shortage of clean water and food in the coastal areas of Bangladesh battered by Cyclone Aila has brought an outbreak of deadly diarrhea, officials say. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 29 (UPI) -- Some 20,000 Sri Lankan Tamil civilians died mostly in military shelling in the final push to defeat the Tamil Tigers, The Times of London reported Friday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 29 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan army says the parents of Vellupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels reported dead, are housed in a camp for displaced civilians. |
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| Thursday, May 28COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 28 (UPI) -- The visit of the U.N. secretary-general to Sri Lanka's main refugee camp for Tamil civilians has helped improve access to the facility, aid workers said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 28 (UPI) -- The United Nations has offered support to Sri Lanka's efforts to deal with large numbers of refugees following the end of the Tamil Tiger war, officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 28 (UPI) -- North Korea's nuclear capabilities may be grabbing headlines, but U.S. officials say growth of nuclear programs in Pakistan and India also are of concern. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 28 (UPI) -- A formal decision on the dismissal of Nepal's army chief will be taken soon, the country's new prime minister said. |
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| Wednesday, May 27WASHINGTON, May 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department is considering changing tactics and deploying specialized troops to battle the Taliban in Afghanistan, a military source said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 27 (UPI) -- Afghan and coalition forces killed four militants and seized 10 others Wednesday in two provinces in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military says. |
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| Tuesday, May 26ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 26 (UPI) -- A peace gesture by Taliban militants being pounded by the Pakistani army in the country's northwest has been rejected, the military said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 26 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is now free to run for Parliament and hold public office, the country's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 26 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has turned down the Tamil Tigers' offer to take the democratic route in their struggle. |
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| Monday, May 25BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan, May 25 (UPI) -- Memorial Day took on a special meaning for 106 U.S. service members who became U.S. citizens Monday while stationed in the Afghan war zone. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 25 (UPI) -- Pakistan is having to contend with throngs of displaced people while its army successfully battles militants in its northwestern region, officials say. |
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| Sunday, May 24KABUL, Afghanistan, May 24 (UPI) -- A Taliban leader freed after being detained both at Guantanamo Bay and in Afghanistan claims he was mistreated by the U.S. military. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 24 (UPI) -- The Tamil Tigers' prolonged civil war in Sri Lanka may have ended but the plight of those displaced by the fighting remains dire, officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 24 (UPI) -- Officials in Pakistan say they have captured from Taliban forces important neighborhoods in Mingora, the largest city in the contested Swat Valley. |
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| Saturday, May 23ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The Pakistani army has entered Mingora, the largest town in Swat valley, and a street-to-street battle is raging with the Taliban, the military said Saturday. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 23 (UPI) -- Incidents of rhinoceros poaching are on the rise in Nepal, an official said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force Academy says it's mourning the death of its first female graduate to be killed by enemy forces in Afghanistan or Iraq. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 23 (UPI) -- Pakistan's assault on Taliban militants in the Swat Valley is an opportunity to help rid the entire world of extremism, President Asif Ali Zardari says. |
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| Friday, May 22PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 22 (UPI) -- At least eight people were killed Friday in Peshawar, Pakistan, when a bomb in a parked car exploded by a crowded movie theater, police say. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 22 (UPI) -- More than 6,200 Sri Lankan security personnel were killed fighting the Tamil Tigers in the past three years, a government official said. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 22 (UPI) -- Nepal may soon have a new prime minister, ending the political deadlock brought on by the resignation of Pushpa Kamal Dahal. |
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| Thursday, May 21COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 21 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka says it has drawn up a six-month plan to resettle the more than 275,000 Tamils displaced in the latest military campaign against Tamil rebels. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 21 (UPI) -- A Nepalese climber holding the record of climbing Mount Everest the most number of times bettered it Thursday with his 19th success on the world's tallest peak. MARJEH, Afghanistan, May 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Forces in Afghanistan said Thursday 16 militants have been killed and a cache of drugs and weapons has been located as part of an ongoing operation. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 21 (UPI) -- Some children in camps for people displaced by Sri Lanka's Tamil rebel conflict have been abducted, international human rights groups say. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. troop pullout is being raised by Afghan and Pakistani leaders and the Taliban in talks with intermediaries about a possible peace accord, leaders said. |
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| Wednesday, May 20KABUL, Afghanistan, May 20 (UPI) -- NATO commanders Wednesday said international coalition troops continued to clash with Afghan militants in a southern insurgent stronghold. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 20 (UPI) -- Unsolicited Bibles a U.S. church sent to Afghanistan were confiscated and burned by the military, a Defense Department spokesman said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 20 (UPI) -- Results of a military investigation into a recent U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan indicate the bombings killed up to 65 Taliban militants and up to 30 civilians. TORONTO, May 20 (UPI) -- Canada's defense minister said after meeting with Pakistani President Asif Zardari he is considering ending an 11-year-old arms embargo. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 20 (UPI) -- White phosphorous, which can inflict severe burns, is used by militants to attack NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, coalition force officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 20 (UPI) -- The United Nations, demanding full access to Sri Lankan refugee camps, says the number of displaced persons in these shelters may reach 250,000 this week. |
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| Tuesday, May 19KABUL, Afghanistan, May 19 (UPI) -- Former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad is negotiating with President Hamid Karzai to take a role in his government, diplomatic sources say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 19 (UPI) -- Pakistan's main opposition party, the Muslim League, says it's backing the government's assault on Taliban militants in the Swat Valley. |
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| Monday, May 18KABUL, Afghanistan, May 18 (UPI) -- A brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he survived an assassination attempt by gunmen who fired on his convoy Monday, killing one of his bodyguards. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 18 (UPI) -- The leader of the Tamil Tigers rebels has died in battle along with his son and several key rebel leaders, the Sri Lankan military said Monday. |
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| Sunday, May 17ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 17 (UPI) -- Pakistan needs billions more in foreign aid to rout militants from the Afghanistan border -- a stronghold of Osama bin Laden, President Asif Ali Zardari said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 17 (UPI) -- Pakistan's army has killed more 1,000 militants and nearly eliminated Taliban control of the North West Frontier Province, military officials said Sunday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 17 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan Army has begun its final mopping up of Tamil Tiger fighters trapped in the northeastern part of the country, the Ministry of Defense said Sunday. |
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| Saturday, May 16COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 16 (UPI) -- The long civil war in Sri Lanka appeared to be in its final hours Saturday with the Tamil Tigers cut off from the sea. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 16 (UPI) -- A raid designed to destabilize an eastern Afghanistan militant network resulted in the death of an armed militant, U.S. military officials say. |
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| Friday, May 15ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Taliban insurgents in Pakistan's Swat valley may be preparing to fight the army on the streets of the scenic district's main city, as soldiers and guerrillas adopt surprising conventional war tactics. HERAT, Afghanistan, May 15 (UPI) -- An Afghan national says Taliban forces in Farah province's Bala Boluk district fled the area before it was targeted by U.S. airstrikes on May 4. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 15 (UPI) -- Thousands of civilians fled Pakistan's Swat Valley Friday as the military suspended a curfew for eight hours in the battle-torn area, officials said |
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| Thursday, May 14COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 14 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military says it rescued 3,300 trapped Tamil civilians in the northeastern safety zone, but aid agencies gave a grim picture of the situation. WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) -- Efforts to rid Afghanistan of the Taliban depends on successfully ridding Pakistan of the militants, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. TORONTO, May 14 (UPI) -- Ontario's premier called on Ottawa and the United Nations Thursday to pressure all sides to end the Sri Lanka war between the government and the Tamil Tigers. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 14 (UPI) -- The Taliban warned they will arrest the families of Pakistani officials in the troubled northwest region if the officials don't resign. |
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| Wednesday, May 13KABUL, Afghanistan, May 13 (UPI) -- Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. President Barack Obama's choice to lead the war in Afghanistan, will need to expand his military vision, analysts say. KHOST, Afghanistan, May 13 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber targeting a U.S. base in Afghanistan killed seven people when he drove his vehicle near Camp Salerno entrance, the U.S. military said. |
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| Tuesday, May 12WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- The United States and Britain Tuesday called for an immediate end to hostilities in Sri Lanka, where civilian casualties have continued to mount. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. military has begun flying armed Predator drones inside Pakistan with the cooperation of Islamabad, a U.S. official said. FARAH CITY, Afghanistan, May 12 (UPI) -- The Afghan government made payments Tuesday to the families of 140 civilians reportedly killed in U.S. bombing in Farah Province. KHOST, Afghanistan, May 12 (UPI) -- Taliban militants stormed municipal buildings in Khost, Afghanistan, Tuesday, taking hostages and engaging in deadly fighting, U.S. and local officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 12 (UPI) -- Declassified U.S. documents indicate the Taliban have been using British-made white phosphorus as a weapon against NATO troops in Afghanistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 12 (UPI) -- A suspected U.S. unmanned aircraft strike on a village in Pakistan's tribal region killed nine people and wounded others Tuesday, Pakistani officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 12 (UPI) -- A United Nations official should be disciplined for accusing Sri Lanka of causing a civilian "bloodbath" in its war with militants, Sri Lankan diplomats said. May 12--A top aide defended Gen. David McKiernan after his dismissal as Afghanistan theater commander Monday, saying many of the civilians who died in U.S. air strikes last week had been forced into target buildings by the Taliban and required to shoot at government forces. |
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| Monday, May 11COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 11 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan Tamil rebels claimed Sunday the island nation's army engaged in "large scale slaughter" in a safety zone, with some 1,200 bodies counted. |
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| Sunday, May 10COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 10 (UPI) -- A British television news team detained in Sri Lanka after reporting about alleged abuses suffered by ethnic Tamils has been released, ITN managers say. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 10 (UPI) -- Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav Sunday called for a majority vote in Parliament to elect a new prime minister after talks on a coalition government failed. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 10 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will negotiate to share power with notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, The Sunday Times of London reported. MINGORA, Pakistan, May 10 (UPI) -- Pakistani military leaders Sunday said 200 Taliban militants were killed during a one-day period in the Swat and Shangla districts. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 10 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka's military Sunday denied reports government troops killed more than 2,000 civilians in a clash with Tamil Tiger militants. CHENNAI, India, May 10 (UPI) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday the country will not send troops to Sri Lanka. MINGORA, Pakistan, May 9 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government urged civilians to flee the Swat Valley, lifting a curfew to make evacuation possible as the Army takes on the Taliban. |
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| Saturday, May 9PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 9 (UPI) -- Missiles fired by U.S. drones killed at least nine people Saturday in an area in South Waziristan, Pakistan, thought to be a Taliban stronghold, witnesses said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 9 (UPI) -- Afghanistan officials say 44 presidential candidates, including two women, have signed up to run in the upcoming national elections. HERAT, Afghanistan, May 9 (UPI) -- The British military suffered its deadliest day in Afghanistan this week when two soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber and two more in other attacks. |
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| Friday, May 8COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 8 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan military forces have repeatedly shelled hospitals in the northern Vanni region during fighting with rebels, Human Rights Watch said Friday. MINGORA, Pakistan, May 8 (UPI) -- The Pakistan military said it implemented a full-scale offensive in the Swat Valley Friday in an attempt to drive out Taliban militants. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 8 (UPI) -- Two British soldiers were killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan Thursday, military officials said. WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari says his country's military offensive against Taliban militants will "go on till the situation returns to normal." KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 8 (UPI) -- Riot police in the capital of Nepal confronted Maoist demonstrators Thursday as they marched on the presidential palace. |
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| Thursday, May 7KABUL, Afghanistan, May 7 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates Thursday said the Taliban erred by trying to take over the Buner district in Pakistan because it is so close to Islamabad. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 7 (UPI) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his chief of defense made a surprise visit to Afghanistan Thursday to brief combat troops about coming changes. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 7 (UPI) -- Pakistani government officials Thursday said they would scrap a peace deal with the Taliban and undertake a more aggressive operation against the militants. WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday the United States is committing to establish an agriculture training program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
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| Wednesday, May 6WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama met with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan in Washington Wednesday, vowing afterward to cement ties between the three nations. |
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| Tuesday, May 5MALE, Maldives, May 5 (UPI) -- The Maldives has joined a U.N. initiative promoting a global shift to low-carbon economies and societies, the United Nations said Tuesday. MINGORA, Pakistan, May 5 (UPI) -- An expected Pakistani military offensive in the Swat Valley may prompt 500,000 civilians to flee the area ahead of the fighting, government officials say. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 5 (UPI) -- Nepal's president says he has set a Saturday deadline for the country's political parties to come up with a new consensus government. WASHINGTON, May 5 (UPI) -- Pakistani and Afghan leaders were in Washington for talks with President Barack Obama as the Pakistani military stepped up its assault against the Taliban. |
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| Monday, May 4KABUL, Afghanistan, May 4 (UPI) -- A former Afghan official says an investigation should be conducted into U.S. soldiers allegedly trying to convert Muslims to Christianity. WASHINGTON, May 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. military strategy is moving from Iraq to Afghanistan, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman said Monday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 4 (UPI) -- Ten militants and three government soldiers were killed in fighting in Pakistan's Buner and Lower Dir districts, the Pakistani military said Monday. PUTUMATALAN, Sri Lanka, May 4 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan soldiers are killing children as young as 11 years old conscripted by the Tamil Tigers in their last stand, a military commander said. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 4 (UPI) -- Nepal's prime minister resigned Monday following the controversial firing of the country's army chief of staff and resulting riots, observers said. WASHINGTON, May 4 (UPI) -- Concern is growing in Washington over the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal amid widening influence of the Taliban and al-Qaida, U.S. officials said. |
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| Sunday, May 3KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 3 (UPI) -- Communists in Nepal have quit a governing coalition in protest over the firing of the army chief. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 3 (UPI) -- At least 16 militants were killed in Mohmand as Pakistan's army and the Taliban traded fire throughout the Frontier Province, military sources said Sunday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 3 (UPI) -- Tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped Sunday between Sri Lanka's army and Tamil militants, who have vowed not to surrender, the United Nations said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 3 (UPI) -- Hamid Karzai could be re-elected president of Afghanistan merely because his opposition remains divided and is in disarray, political strategists said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 3 (UPI) -- Afghan troops accompanied by Coalition advisers killed 19 militant fighters Saturday when they were attacked 150 miles east of Kabul, the U.S. military said. |
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| Saturday, May 2ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 2 (UPI) -- Fierce fighting between Pakistani security forces and militants in the northwest tribal area Saturday left 18 dead, mostly insurgents, a regional official said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 2 (UPI) -- Two doctors in Sri Lanka alleged Saturday the army bombarded a safe zone hospital in Mullivaikal, killing 91 people. |
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| Friday, May 1ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 1 (UPI) -- The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission is facing problems with its nuclear development programs as a result of financial cuts, a source told the Pak Tribune. WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked Congress to approve more than $1 billion in additional funds for Pakistan's war against the Taliban. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 1 (UPI) -- It could take another week for Pakistani government forces to push back Taliban insurgents in the country's northwest, a military spokesman says. |
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| Thursday, April 30SRI JAYAWARDENAPURA-KOTTE, Sri Lanka, April 30 (UPI) -- Former Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka accused ex-comrades of war crimes, alleging they killed more than 200 Tamil civilians trying to escape a "no-fire zone." AMBILIPITIYA, Sri Lanka, April 30 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said Thursday Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels have no choice but to surrender. KARACHI, Pakistan, April 30 (UPI) -- The unrest in the Pakistani city of Karachi that claimed at least 29 lives has been brought under control, Sindh Home Minister Zulfikar Mirza said Thursday. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, April 30 (UPI) -- Four militants were killed in a military operation in Pakistan's Lower Dir District, a general said. |
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| Wednesday, April 29LONDON, April 29 (UPI) -- Britain will send 700 more troops to Afghanistan mainly to provide security during upcoming elections, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 29 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan Navy says it sank six Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam boats, killing 25 rebels aboard, in a pre-dawn Wednesday attack. SRINAGAR, India, April 29 (UPI) -- Thousands of security troops were sent to Indian-administered Kashmir Wednesday following election-related violence, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 29 (UPI) -- One of the top goals of U.S. troops in Afghanistan this summer will be to break the Taliban's hold on the opium trade, military officials say. CANBERRA, Australia, April 29 (UPI) -- Australia will boost its contingent of troops in Afghanistan by 450 to 1,550 soldiers, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 29 (UPI) -- Pakistani government troops have retaken control of a strategic town in the Buner valley that had been overrun by Taliban militants, officials said. |
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| Tuesday, April 28ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 28 (UPI) -- Pakistani fighter jets Tuesday killed as many as 75 Taliban militants in the region bordering Afghanistan, military officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 28 (UPI) -- About 30,000 people in Pakistan's Lower Dir region have been displaced because of a military offensive against Taliban militants, a local official said Tuesday. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 28 (UPI) -- U.S. forces killed five Taliban fighters near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan and arrested a Taliban commander in the Gulistan valley, the military said. |
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| Monday, April 27WARSAW, Poland, April 27 (UPI) -- Pakistani authorities say the Taliban have handed back the decapitated body of a Polish geologist, killed in the Atock province in February, Polish Radio said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 27 (UPI) -- Pakistani troops Monday killed 20 militants in a ground and air operation against Taliban in the Lower Dir region in northwest Pakistan, official said. |
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| Sunday, April 26Pakistani soldiers battled Taliban militants Sunday in the Malakand Agency, suggesting the government has become more aggressive, military officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 26 (UPI) -- Pakistani soldiers battled Taliban militants Sunday in the Malakand Agency, suggesting the government has become more aggressive, military officials said. |
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| Saturday, April 25COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 25 (UPI) -- At least 150,000 civilians are in danger of starving, the Tamil Tigers say, but the Sri Lankan government puts the number at 10,000. |
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| Friday, April 24ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Armed Taliban extremists began what they said was a pull-out Friday from Buner, just 60 miles from Islamabad, after they raised an international alarm by moving within striking distance of cutting off the capital from the country's northwest. WASHINGTON, April 24 (UPI) -- Agriculture analysts say beneficial rains should lead to a healthier wheat crop in Afghanistan this year, although prices will be lower as well. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 24 (UPI) -- A Sri Lankan official said Friday his government has agreed in principle to allow U.N. staff inspectors to visit the country's "no-fire zone" in the northeast. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 24 (UPI) -- More than 6,400 Sri Lankan civilians have been killed in three months of fighting between the army and Tamil Tiger rebels, the United Nations says in a report. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, April 24 (UPI) -- A 30-year-old Canadian female military officer was found dead in sleeping quarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan, military officials said. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, April 24 (UPI) -- Taliban militants will vacate the Buner District of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, where they had been patrolling the streets, officials say. |
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| Thursday, April 23ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 23 (UPI) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Thursday the government will take action if peace is not maintained in the Swat valley. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 23 (UPI) -- The Afghanistan National Environmental Protection Agency says it has established that country's first internationally recognized national park. |
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| Wednesday, April 22COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 22 (UPI) -- A top Tamil Tiger rebel who surrendered Wednesday says no more than 15,000 civilians remain trapped with the rebels in the no-fire zone, the military said. |
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| Tuesday, April 21KABUL, Afghanistan, April 21 (UPI) -- Coalition forces destroyed an anti-aircraft gun in southern Afghanistan Tuesday, officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 21 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan government's deadline for Tamil Tigers to surrender passed quietly as thousands of civilians fled the 6.5 square mile war zone in the north. |
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| Monday, April 20ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 15 (UPI) -- Airstrikes in a border region of western Pakistan killed between 16 and 20 Taliban fighters, but their commander escaped, officials said. |
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| Sunday, April 19COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 19 (UPI) -- Another 3,000 or so civilians have fled from an area held by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels, Sri Lankan military officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 19 (UPI) -- Separate clashes in Afghanistan killed at least five police officers and an undetermined number of Taliban militants, local and U.S. officials said Sunday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 19 (UPI) -- A suspected U.S. drone Sunday killed three people at a site in Pakistan known to house Taliban militants, officials in South Waziristan said. |
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| Saturday, April 18ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 18 (UPI) -- At least 22 people were killed and 15 wounded Saturday when a suicide bomber rammed a truck into a Pakistani military convoy, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 18 (UPI) -- Firebrand Pakistani Islamic cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz says that if Islamabad wants peace, the government should adopt Islamic law nationwide. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 18 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka says it will not extend a lull in its military push to finish off the Tamil Tigers' rebellion to spare civilians caught in a safe zone. |
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| Friday, April 17LONDON, April 17 (UPI) -- Two thousand British soldiers have completed combat training and are waiting to learn if they will be deployed to Afghanistan. WARSAW, Poland, April 17 (UPI) -- Poland's defense minister said a fresh contingent of troops will raise the number of his country's soldiers in Afghanistan to 2,000. |
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| Tuesday, April 14NEW DELHI, April 14 (UPI) -- A senior officer in India's military says Taliban forces are not active in the country. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 14 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has signed a controversial law to allow Islamic law in an area of the North West Frontier province, observers said. |
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| Sunday, April 12KABUL, Afghanistan, April 12 (UPI) -- A NATO aircraft attack killed 22 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, including four Pakistani nationals, police in Zabul province said Sunday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 12 (UPI) -- Three guards were wounded Sunday in Pakistan in an attack on a supply depot serving U.S. and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan, police said. |
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| Saturday, April 11KABUL, Afghanistan, April 11 (UPI) -- Some 66 Taliban members were killed and 15 others were injured in a pair of joint operations in Afghanistan, military officials said Saturday. |
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| Friday, April 10LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, April 10 (UPI) -- The U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan said Friday they killed at least 27 suspected insurgents in recent conflicts. |
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| Thursday, April 9GHAZNI, Afghanistan, April 9 (UPI) -- New U.S. strategy calls for 4,000 more troops to train Afghan police and army but observers say corruption may be a bigger policing problem. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 9 (UPI) -- Up to 190,000 civilians are in peril in the zone where the Sri Lankan army has the remnants of the Tamil Tigers trapped, the United Nations says. |
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| Wednesday, April 8ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 8 (UPI) -- Three Taliban militants were killed near the town of Wana in Pakistan Wednesday by a suspected U.S. missile strike, a Pakistani official says. WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force is dropping fewer bombs in Afghanistan, reflecting a change in tactics against insurgents, military statistics indicate. |
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| Monday, April 6KABUL, Afghanistan, April 6 (UPI) -- Fourteen Taliban militants were slain Monday by a joint force of U.S.-led coalition troops and an Afghan security team, officials said Monday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 6 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has called on the besieged Tamil Tigers to surrender. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 6 (UPI) -- Pakistan's chief justice says he wants a detailed report from local government officials about the public flogging of a 17-year-old girl. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 6 (UPI) -- Pakistan's political and military elites don't agree with the United States that the threat from Islamic extremists is a dire one, analysts say. |
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| Saturday, April 4ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 4 (UPI) -- At least 25 people were killed Saturday in two suicide attacks in Pakistan, one in the capital and the other in North Waziristan near the Afghan border. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 4 (UPI) -- At least 11 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed and four of their boats sunk in a battle at sea Saturday, say Sri Lankan naval officials. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 4 (UPI) -- Rockets fired from a U.S. drone killed 13 people at an alleged militant hideout in Pakistan's tribal region Saturday, sources say. |
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| Friday, April 3COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 3 (UPI) -- At least 47 rebels were killed Friday in Sri Lanka as government forces attacked Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam militants, officials say. SRINAGAR, India, April 3 (UPI) -- Gunbattles between militants and army forces killed six people, including a civilian, in the Indian region of Kashmir, police said Friday. STRASBOURG, France, April 3 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama called on Europe Friday to share more of the military burden to win the NATO-led war in Afghanistan. STRASBOURG, France, April 3 (UPI) -- Eleven aid agencies have warned NATO leaders meeting in France that a troop surge in Afghanistan could lead to more civilian casualties. |
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| Thursday, April 2DHAKA, Bangladesh, April 2 (UPI) -- Researchers report finding a stronghold for the Irrawaddy, one of the world's rarest freshwater dolphins, deep in the Bangladesh jungles. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 2 (UPI) -- Afghan soldiers killed 20 armed militants in the Helmond province of southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, April 1ANKARA, Turkey, April 1 (UPI) -- The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan met in Turkey Wednesday to discuss a regional approach to battling terrorism and militant insurgencies, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 1 (UPI) -- At least six people died Wednesday when suicide bombers set off devices at a provincial council facility in Kandahar, the Afghan Interior Ministry said. |
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| Tuesday, March 31WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- The 4,000 extra U.S. troops to be sent to Afghanistan will work with a command charged with developing Afghan security forces, a U.S. military official said. WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- Attempting to eradicate poppy fields in Afghanistan is counterproductive, the United States' top envoy to the country says. THE HAGUE, Netherlands, March 31 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she backs Afghanistan's plans to conduct reconciliation talks with moderate Taliban members. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 31 (UPI) -- A 15-year-old Afghanistan boy was killed Tuesday in a military operation in Khost province, say NATO officials. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 31 (UPI) -- Islamist terrorism in Pakistan, once found only in the country's remote tribal areas, has spread, threatening political stability nationwide, analysts say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 31 (UPI) -- Shahbaz Sharif can return to his post as chief minister of the Pakistani province of Punjab, the nation's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. |
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| Monday, March 30WASHINGTON, March 30 (UPI) -- The United States supports the Afghan Supreme Court's ruling extending the president's term until elections can be held, a State Department spokesman said. |
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| Sunday, March 29PESHAWAR, Pakistan, March 29 (UPI) -- Four vehicles and offices of a terminal storing containers filled with NATO military supplies were burned in Peshawar, Pakistan, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 29 (UPI) -- Pakistani security forces said Saturday they killed 26 Taliban militants in the Mohmand Agency in the Northwest Frontier province. |
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| Saturday, March 28ROME, March 28 (UPI) -- Italy plans to send as many as 250 more soldiers to Afghanistan during the summer to provide security during the run-up to elections. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 28 (UPI) -- A firefight in Afghanistan's Helmand province resulted in the deaths of 12 militants at the hands of Afghan and coalition troops, officials said. WASHINGTON, March 28 (UPI) -- Obama administration officials are being cagey about whether U.S. forces should directly engage terrorists operating in northwestern Pakistan, analysts said. |
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| Friday, March 27WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- The 60-day review of the U.S. Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy was an aggressive effort to ensure all views were heard and considered, officials said Friday. WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama outlined a new Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy boosting troop levels and funding and setting expectations for the countries' leaders. |
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| Thursday, March 26Pakistan is offering direct support to the Taliban's southern Afghanistan campaign despite vowing to sever ties, U.S. aides say. WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- Pakistan is offering direct support to the Taliban's southern Afghanistan campaign despite vowing to sever ties, U.S. aides say. |
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| Wednesday, March 25NEW DELHI, March 25 (UPI) -- The Indian Army has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over an alleged cease-fire violation last weekend in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, March 25 (UPI) -- Bangladeshi authorities say an orphanage run by a British charity was being used as a training camp and arms factory for Islamic militants. |
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| Monday, March 23WASHINGTON, March 23 (UPI) -- As U.S. President Barack Obama nears announcing his Afghanistan war strategy, observers are drawing distinctions between Obama and his immediate predecessor. WASHINGTON, March 23 (UPI) -- A senior Taliban leader responsible for roadside bombings and suicide attacks against NATO forces died during an attack on his compound, NATO said Monday. |
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| Sunday, March 22KABUL, Afghanistan, March 22 (UPI) -- The United States is prepared to discuss the establishment of a political party for the Taliban in Afghanistan, a U.S. diplomat says. |
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| Saturday, March 21KABUL, Afghanistan, March 21 (UPI) -- Insurgents detonated two bombs in Afghanistan Saturday -- the country's new year -- killing at least eight people and wounding several more, authorities said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 21 (UPI) -- Pakistan said Saturday Indian forces fired on Pakistani positions across the Line of Control between with the two countries. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 21 (UPI) -- U.S. CIA Director Leon Panetta arrived in Pakistan Saturday to meet with top leaders in Islamabad, officials said. |
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| Thursday, March 19WASHINGTON, March 19 (UPI) -- Hundreds of U.S. civilians may be sent to Afghanistan in a program to support security, governance and local development, Obama administration officials said. |
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| Wednesday, March 18KABUL, Afghanistan, March 18 (UPI) -- Three civilians were injured Wednesday when a bomb exploded near a gas station in the Afghan capital of Kabul, the government says. |
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| Monday, March 16UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 16 (UPI) -- The United Nations said it fears for the safety of one of its Sri Lankan employees who was forcibly recruited by the Tamil Tigers fighting the government. |
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| Sunday, March 15PESHAWAR, Pakistan, March 15 (UPI) -- Pakistani singers and actors say the Taliban is threatening them with death if they refuse to join radical preaching groups. |
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| Saturday, March 14KABUL, Afghanistan, March 14 (UPI) -- A British soldier with the Royal Welsh Regiment died Saturday in an explosion in Afghanistan's Helmand province, military authorities said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 14 (UPI) -- More than 1,000 civilians escaped from rebel control in Sri Lanka ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 14 (UPI) -- Pakistan Information Minister Sherry Rehman has resigned as the government clamps down on protesters and the country's media, reports indicate. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 14 (UPI) -- Six Afghan militants were killed and 10 arrested Saturday in two separate clashes with government and coalition forces, military officials said. |
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| Friday, March 13GENEVA, Switzerland, March 13 (UPI) -- Actions by both Sri Lankan government forces and rebel troops in northern Sri Lanka could constitute war crimes, a top U.N. human rights official said Friday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 13 (UPI) -- A military spokesman for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka has been killed by the militant group, Tamil sources said Friday. |
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| Thursday, March 12ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 12 (UPI) -- Pakistani lawyers joined in protests Thursday against the government of President Asif Ali Zardari. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 12 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States said Kabul's Western allies are providing a half-hearted effort to defeat extremists. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 12 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan army troops Thursday claimed to have captured a Tamil Tigers hospital at Puthukkudiyiruppu. |
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| Wednesday, March 11ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 11 (UPI) -- Pakistani officials seeking to prevent a planned protest march have arrested dozens of opposition political figures, activists say. |
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| Tuesday, March 10KABUL, Afghanistan, March 10 (UPI) -- Sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan will not stabilize the war-torn country, an Afghan activist said Tuesday. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 10 (UPI) -- U.S. special forces in Afghanistan halted commando raids for two weeks in February because of outrage over the civilian deaths they caused, sources say. |
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| Monday, March 9COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 9 (UPI) -- A former leader of a splinter rebel group took a post in the Sri Lankan government Monday, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 9 (UPI) -- The Pakistani man believed responsible for a terrorist attack on a cricket team's bus escaped capture Monday in a Punjab police raid, sources say. TANGAIL, Bangladesh, March 9 (UPI) -- Two Bangladeshi army officers died Monday when their helicopter hit an electric pole and crashed about 100 miles north of Dhaka, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 9 (UPI) -- Four Islamic militants were killed by Pakistani forces in the Bajaur region where Pakistan has declared victory over the Taliban, officials said Monday. |
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| Sunday, March 8DHAKA, Bangladesh, March 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation team will help probe a deadly mutiny by Bangladesh Rifles paramilitary troops, officials said Sunday. |
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| Saturday, March 7SRINAGAR, India, March 7 (UPI) -- A large portion of Srinagar in the Kashmir region has been placed under strict security by Indian police, a local resident said Saturday. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 7 (UPI) -- Seven Afghan militants were slain and five suspected militants were arrested Saturday in several U.S.-led coalition operations, officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 7 (UPI) -- At least 32 Tamil rebels have been killed in heavy fighting in northeastern Sri Lanka, military officials said Saturday. LONDON, March 7 (UPI) -- The former head of Britain's special air service troops in Afghanistan says the government has "blood on (its) hands" for using inadequate equipment. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, March 7 (UPI) -- Seven people, including five police personnel, were killed by a car bomb Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 7 (UPI) -- A spokesman for Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai says the president is sticking with his decision to hold presidential elections next month. |
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| Friday, March 6LAHORE, Pakistan, March 6 (UPI) -- Security officials say some of the gunmen who attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team in the Pakistani city of Lahore have ties to al-Qaida. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 6 (UPI) -- Pakistani authorities investigating the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team say they have uncovered criminal, terrorism and extremist elements. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 6 (UPI) -- A fresh bout of violence between Sri Lankan government forces and rebel fighters has resulted in at least 38 rebel deaths, the military said Friday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 6 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Friday he sees a "ray of hope" that will likely lead to major changes in the country. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. military is seeking to shore up a weak supply chain through Pakistan and Central Asia as it prepares to expand its Afghan presence, officials say. |
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| Thursday, March 5COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 5 (UPI) -- The remaining forces of the Tamil Tigers were trapped in a 21-square-mile area in northern Sri Lanka, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 5 (UPI) -- An unexplained delay in the Pakistani cricket team schedule is fueling a theory the deadly attack on the Sri Lankan team was based on inside information. |
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| Wednesday, March 4ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 4 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama says a terror attack on his country's cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan, won't harm relations with Islamabad. DHAKA, Bangladesh, March 3 (UPI) -- Two of the suspected ringleaders of a mutiny by the Bangladesh Rifles were among five men arrested Tuesday, authorities said. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 4 (UPI) -- Three Canadian soldiers in NATO's Afghanistan mission were killed by a roadside bomb northwest of Kandahar, military officials said Wednesday. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 4 (UPI) -- Twenty people have been arrested in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team visiting Lahore, Pakistan, in which eight people died, officials said. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 3 (UPI) -- At least seven people, including six police officers, died during an attack Tuesday on the Sri Lankan soccer team in Pakistan for a competition. |
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| Tuesday, March 3NEW DELHI, March 3 (UPI) -- Terrorism based in Pakistan is a "grave threat" to the entire world, India said Tuesday after gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan national cricket team's bus. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 3 (UPI) -- The death toll in Tuesday's attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan, rose to eight, while six team members were wounded, officials said. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 3 (UPI) -- Britain Tuesday condemned an attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Pakistan as a "grotesque violation" while others called it a grim day for the sport. |
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| Monday, March 2DHAKA, Bangladesh, March 2 (UPI) -- The Bangladeshi army combed the nation's streets and villages Monday, hunting down paramilitary mutineers now considered fugitives, observers said. |
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| Sunday, March 1KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 1 (UPI) -- Fighting between coalition and militant forces in Afghanistan Sunday left four militants dead, U.S. officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 1 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai's call to hold elections this spring rather than in August upset the United States and opposition politicians, analysts said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, March 1 (UPI) -- The Bangladeshi border guard mutiny was led by four deputy assistant directors and intentionally targeted officers for killings, a police chief says. |
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| Saturday, February 28KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai decreed Saturday that the next election must be held at least a month before his term expires. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- The scene of a mutiny by Bangladeshi border guards has revealed three more mass graves, raising the death toll to 77, military officials said Saturday. |
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| Friday, February 27LAHORE, Pakistan, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Pakistan Muslim League leader Nawaz Sharif says his political party will help liberate Pakistan with the support of the Pakistani people. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Thirty-eight more bodies were found Friday in the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters during a search of the compound following a 33-hour mutiny, officials said. |
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| Thursday, February 26DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- The deadly rebellion that took place at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in the Bangladesh city of Dhaka has prompted mass unrest, sources say. |
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| Wednesday, February 25DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The death toll from the failed mutiny by Bangladeshi border guards Wednesday appears to be about 50, a state minister said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- A bombing, airstrikes and clashes between militants and military resulted in 30 deaths in Afghanistan, government and military officials said Wednesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif can no longer hold elected office, the country's Supreme Court says. |
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| Tuesday, February 24ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- The head of the Taliban group that controls about 70 percent of the Swat Valley in Pakistan announced an indefinite cease-fire Tuesday. OTTAWA, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Canadian troops are being advised to take a soft approach to Afghans because a decisive military victory is unlikely, the National Post reported. |
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| Sunday, February 22BARA, Pakistan, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. military and technical personnel are training Pakistani forces in secret operations aimed at battling al-Qaida and the Taliban, The New York Times reports. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan police claimed Sunday Tamil Tiger rebels had killed 21 civilians in a village in the country's Eastern province. |
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| Saturday, February 21KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Thirteen civilians were killed during an operation conducted by coalition forces in Afghanistan's Herat province this week, military officials said Saturday. |
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| Friday, February 20COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Rebels in Sri Lanka launched an airstrike on the capital city of Colombo, officials said Friday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- An International Committee of the Red Cross representative Friday said the humanitarian group will ferry wounded civilians out of a Sri Lankan combat zone. |
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| Wednesday, February 18ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- GEO News correspondent Mosa Khankhel was shot to death Wednesday in Matta, Pakistan, the network said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The CIA has been secretly using the Shamsi airfield in Pakistan to launch drone attacks against al-Qaida and Taliban militants, a British newspaper says. |
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| Tuesday, February 17WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday approved a Pentagon request for more U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the White House said. |
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| Monday, February 16KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- An Afghan contractor was killed by a roadside bomb that exploded as a joint U.S.-Afghan patrol passed beside it, officials said Monday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Iran has a key role in helping to stabilize Afghanistan, the United States' representative to the area said, indicating a shift in Washington's view of Tehran. |
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| Saturday, February 14KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke met Saturday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- A missile strike in Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas killed at least 25 Taliban militants Saturday, officials said. |
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| Friday, February 13COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka is planning barbed-wire enclosed camps, with schools and parks, where 200,000 ethnic Tamil refugees can live for up to three years, officials say. LONDON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- British troops are expected to play a significantly reduced role in southern Afghanistan, military officials say. |
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| Thursday, February 12ROME, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Italy plans to send more of its troops to Afghanistan, in response to a request from U.S. President Barack Obama, an Italian official said Thursday. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Thousands of U.S. assault rifles and other firearms American officials lost track of in Afghanistan may be in Taliban hands, a congressional report says. |
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| Wednesday, February 11ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke says Pakistan must eliminate safe havens used by terrorists in the country's northwestern tribal areas. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters stormed two government ministries and the prisons administration center Wednesday in Kabul in simultaneous assaults that killed at least 19 people, wounded more than 50 and underscored the ease with which the insurgents are able to penetrate the heavily guarded Afghan capital. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Pakistani Taliban leaders are targeting the capital Islamabad in retaliation for government offensives in the country's northwest, a local media report says. |
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| Monday, February 9ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. officials voiced doubt about Pakistan's decision to limit Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan's movements after releasing him from house arrest. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Up to 24 people died Monday in a suicide bombing at a relief camp for people fleeing fighting between Sri Lanka's army and Tamil fighters, officials said. |
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| Sunday, February 8KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Authorities in southern Afghanistan say four people, including two U.S. soldiers, died Sunday in a roadside bomb blast in Helmand province. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai, once regarded as a hero by the Bush administration, has fallen out of favor at home and abroad, analysts say. |
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| Saturday, February 7HELMAND, Afghanistan, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A Taliban stronghold has been destroyed by British and Afghan forces after 10 days of fighting in southern Afghanistan, officials said. ROME, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Authorities say Italy plans to add 800 soldiers to NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan this year. |
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| Friday, February 6ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The Pakistani nuclear scientist accused of sharing nuclear secrets with other countries criticized Western countries Friday as he was freed from house arrest. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa says his country's military won't harass the civilian population while conducting anti-terrorism operations. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Pakistani army helicopter gunships have killed 52 militants in an attack south of the Khyber Pass, a senior military official in Peshawar said Friday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Demonstrators threw stones at Red Cross offices in the Sri Lankan capital Friday and said the international humanitarian group should leave the country. |
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| Thursday, February 5COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A major rebel base in the Sri Lankan town of Chalai was captured Thursday by government troops, the military says. DERA GHAZI KHAN, Pakistan, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- As many as 25 people were killed Thursday when a bomb exploded near a congregation hall in the Pakistani city of Dera Ghazi Khan, rescue sources say. |
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| Wednesday, February 4KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, visiting Afghanistan Wednesday, pledged the United Nations' support for development, peace and stability in the country. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has called for a more tailored Afghan policy of counterinsurgency and development goals, aides said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The last functioning hospital in the northern Sri Lanka war zone has closed in the face of fighting between troops and Tamil rebels, U.N. officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Militants fired rockets at NATO supply trucks Wednesday in Pakistan, the latest attack on vehicles carrying supplies for coalition forces, officials said. |
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| Tuesday, February 3ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A bomb blast ripped through a mosque in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province Tuesday killing one person and injuring more than 20, police said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Afghan security officials say they have arrested 17 people allegedly involved in suicide bombings that have killed 20 civilians over a two-year period. |
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| Monday, February 2KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- At least 25 Afghan police officers died Monday when a Taliban suicide bomber dressed as a police officer attacked a local station, an Afghan official said. |
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| Sunday, February 1MINGORA, Pakistan, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- At least 16 Taliban militants and at least 43 civilians have died in a sustained Pakistani military offensive in the Swat Valley, observers said Sunday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A member of the U.N.-mandated International Security Assistance Force and three civilians were killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, officials said Sunday. |
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| Friday, January 30COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The estimated 250,000 civilians in the conflict zone in northern Sri Lanka want to stay to be protected by the Tamil Tigers, the rebels say, KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A NATO military official has been criticized for ordering NATO forces in Afghanistan to use lethal force against drug traffickers they encounter, sources say. |
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| Thursday, January 29DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan are "counterproductive" and should be stopped, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, January 28ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The Pakistani Foreign Ministry insisted Wednesday that it had not given the United States permission to hit al-Qaida targets inside Pakistan. SEOUL, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- South Korea says it will expand its civilian-led presence in Afghanistan and follow up later with other contributions to the battle against Taliban militants. |
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| Tuesday, January 27COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Civilians in Sri Lanka are increasingly suffering casualties as the military battles rebels in the country's north and along its coastline, observers say. |
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| Monday, January 26KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Afghan militants directed 3,276 roadside bomb attacks at Western troops last year, a 45 percent increase from 2007, U.S. Defense Department figures indicate. |
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| Sunday, January 25MEHTERLAM, Afghanistan, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Angry demonstrators in eastern Afghanistan Sunday protested a U.S-led raid against Taliban insurgents in the region, which they say killed 16 Afghan civilians. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan soldiers used a surprise attack to gain control of the key rebel stronghold town of Mullaittivu, officials said Sunday. |
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| Saturday, January 24COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- The editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper and his wife were beaten in Colombo, newspaper staffers said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Marine Corps is proposing a complete withdrawal of its troops from Iraq this year, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. coalition forces have killed 15 suspected Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, military officials said Saturday. |
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| Friday, January 23LONDON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The top doctor in the British military says he has had no complaints from wounded soldiers about being treated in the same hospital as Taliban fighters. KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A Pakistani official said his country's inquiry into the deadly terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai will follow Pakistani laws. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- With U.S. President Barack Obama taking office amid an expected sea of change, experts say an ouster of Afghan leader Hamid Karzai may be forthcoming. |
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| Thursday, January 22KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S.-led coalition appears to have ceded much of Afghanistan's southern border to the Taliban until new forces arrive, The New York Times reports. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A Pakistani citizen alleges in a lawsuit against the U.S. government that he was unjustly held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base for more than six years. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Troops have seized the Tamil Tiger rebel command center in northern Sri Lanka, a government report said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, January 21TARIN KOWT, Afghanistan, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Australian Governor-General Quentin Bryce stayed overnight with the country's troops at their front-line base in Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. military says it is looking into allegations 25 Afghan civilians were killed in an attack directed at Taliban militants. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Avian flu has been detected in southeastern Nepal, prompting authorities to begin slaughtering thousands of poultry, U.N. health officials said Wednesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. military has secured new supply routes to Afghanistan to avoid Taliban attacks on the main supply route, U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A suicide car bomb killed two Afghan soldiers and wounded three others Wednesday, a Defense Ministry official in Kabul said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan Navy says it has fired at a suspicious aircraft that was apparently leaving one of the last strongholds of Tamil Tiger rebels. |
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| Tuesday, January 20ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military Tuesday called on outside powers to stop demanding Islamabad do more to prove its sincerity in fighting militants. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Sixty militants in Pakistan, including several local commanders, have been killed in the past day, the Frontier Corps said Tuesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus was in Pakistan Tuesday to discuss security in the region and the on-going war on terror, Pakistani officials said. |
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| Monday, January 19ALGIERS, Algeria, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Anti-terrorism leaders say a number of al-Qaida militants in training have been killed by the "black death, a plague that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. |
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| Saturday, January 17COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Tamil Tiger rebels say they have killed 51 Sri Lankan soldiers near Dharmapuram, a claim disputed by military officials. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Five people, including a U.S. soldier and a child, were killed Saturday in a suicide bombing near the German embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, officials said. |
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| Friday, January 16KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. military and counterinsurgency plan in Afghanistan is meeting resistance that could delay or weaken the effort, military leaders said. |
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| Thursday, January 15KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A senior Afghan military officer and 12 other passengers were killed Thursday when a military helicopter crashed in western Afghanistan, officials said. |
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| Monday, January 12KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Journalists in Nepal say the hacking death of a colleague is part of a growing pattern of violence against reporters in the southern Asian nation. TORKHAM, Afghanistan, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Some U.S. military officers say mistrust among the staff of a new intelligence outpost in Afghanistan's remote Khyber Pass is limiting its effectiveness. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama needs to bolster U.S. troops numbers in Afghanistan to create stability, military officials say. |
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| Sunday, January 11KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The arrival of a U.S. general in Afghanistan has effectively supplanted the British as the de facto leaders of NATO troops in the country, sources say. MOHMAND, Pakistan, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Pakistani soldiers battled hundreds of pro-Taliban militants who crossed from Afghanistan into the country's tribal areas this weekend, officials said. |
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| Saturday, January 10KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Three U.S. soldiers died in Afghanistan's Zabol province only hours after two others were killed in a Kandahar suicide bombing, officials said. |
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| Friday, January 9COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Government troops gained control of the strategic Elephant Pass in Sri Lanka from rebel forces on Friday, President Mahinda Rajapakse said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Gen. David H. Petraeus, the U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, says a significant and lengthy commitment is needed in the war-torn country. |
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| Thursday, January 8COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The shooting death of an anti-government newspaper editor in Sri Lanka is the latest in a string of attacks on such journalists, an advocacy group said. |
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| Wednesday, January 7ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The Pakistani government on Wednesday abruptly fired its national security adviser after he confirmed that the surviving gunman captured in the Mumbai attacks is a Pakistani, a key piece of evidence contained in a dossier amassed by India on alleged Pakistani complicity in the three-day assault. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Coalition troops killed 32 suspected militants in Afghanistan as part of an operation targeting a possible bombing cell, the military said Wednesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- The new chief of Pakistan's spy agency says there will be no war with India, but also says militant Taliban leaders have a right to "say what they please." NEW DELHI, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Fighting between security forces and militants in a forested and mountainous region of India-controlled Kashmir entered its seventh day Wednesday. |
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| Tuesday, January 6ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., returning from a three-week tour of Afghanistan, says more U.S. troops need to be sent to the country quickly to stabilize it. LAHORE, Pakistan, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A one-time Pakistani terror suspect says he was subjected to more than six years of torture and abuse by U.S. captors and plans to sue the government. |
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| Monday, January 5ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Taliban-leaning militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region killed three men accused of spying for the United states, tribesmen said Monday. |
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| Saturday, January 3KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan government forces Saturday continued a military campaign against rebels a day after capturing their de facto capital of Kilinochchi, officials said. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan found three large explosive devices in a sport utility vehicle after they shot and killed the driver, the military said Friday. |
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| Friday, January 2ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military is making progress against Taliban militants threatening Pakistan-to-Afghanistan supply routes, U.S. military officials said Friday. OTTAWA, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A Canadian officer serving in Afghanistan was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a suspected insurgent, the military said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military, claiming its biggest victory against the Tamil Tigers, said Friday it was about to capture the rebels' main stronghold of Kilinochchi. |
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| Thursday, January 1ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Four people were killed and many wounded in a suspected drone missile strike in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area Thursday, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military says its forces destroyed suspected militant homes in the Khyber area, the overland supply route to U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- NATO forces in Afghanistan are awaiting details of the new U.S. strategy expected when Barack Obama takes office as president, an alliance spokesman said. |
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| Tuesday, December 30ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A key supply route for U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan was blocked Tuesday by Pakistani troops beginning an offensive against militants, officials said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will return to power after her party posted a landslide win in national elections, officials said. NEW DELHI, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Indian army officials Tuesday denied reports of a troop buildup along the India-Pakistan border, saying Pakistan had "whipped up war rhetoric." |
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| Monday, December 29KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Two suicide bombers struck in Afghanistan's Parwan and Kandahar provinces Monday, killing at least four people and injuring many more, authorities said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Bangladeshi voters cast ballots amid tight security Monday to elect a new government to replace the two-year rule of a military-backed interim government. |
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| Saturday, December 27KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Scores of journalists in Nepal carried out protests Saturday to oppose a series of media attacks focused on freedom of the press, a group says. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Bangladesh is stage to its final political rallies ahead of parliamentary elections Monday in the southern Asian nation, party officials said. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The United Nations is moving to set up a commission to investigate the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, officials said. GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH, Pakistan, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Mourners gathered Saturday to remember slain former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as officials put the military on alert, observers said. |
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| Friday, December 26ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Pakistan canceled leave for its soldiers and was redeploying troops to the Indian border, officials said Friday. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Two former Bangladeshi prime ministers are trading accusations about alleged assassination plots against them in the lead-up to parliamentary elections. |
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| Thursday, December 25KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. project is to begin next year to help the Afghan regime train and arm its people to fight growing Taliban militancy in their areas, officials told CNN. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military said Thursday its forces have killed at least 18 Tamil Tiger rebels while repulsing a counter-attack in a northern area. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Two NATO soldiers have been slain in Afghanistan, military officials said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, December 24KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. military officials say they hope plans to arm local Afghan militias to help fight the Taliban yield results similar to the success seen in Iraq. |
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| Tuesday, December 23KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Many Nepalese newspapers protested an attack by Maoist union activists on a publishing company by printing papers with blank pages Tuesday. BRUSSELS, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- NATO's top military commander says he's surprised that some member nations aren't following through on promises to battle the Afghanistan drug trade. NEW DELHI, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Pakistan scrambled fighter jets over its larger cities as Indian officials said all options were available in the capture of terrorists who attacked Mumbai. |
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| Monday, December 22ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thanked Pakistani military and intelligence officials Monday for their efforts to fight terrorism. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military has been claiming major victories against the Tamil Tigers in recent weeks but a rebel leader told the BBC the fighting will continue. |
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| Sunday, December 21KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Britain may increase its troop strength in Afghanistan to augment a similar increase by the United States, Defense Secretary John Hutton said Sunday. ARGHESTAN, Afghanistan, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Afghan and coalition forces have destroyed 2 1/2 tons of marijuana found in an unused school in Kandahar province. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Taliban militants in Pakistan have killed two Afghan nationals they claim were spies for the United States, officials said Sunday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Government troops in Sri Lanka have retaken Nedunkerni in Mullaitivu District, where soldiers and rebels have been in violent clashes, officials claimed. |
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| Saturday, December 20KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The size of the U.S. military contingent in Afghanistan could be doubled in the next year, a spokesman for the Defense Department said Saturday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A roadside bomb exploded in Afghanistan Saturday, killing three Danish soldiers and wounding another, military officials said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- More than 40,000 military troops were deployed across Bangladesh Saturday amid fears of terrorist attacks before the country's elections, officials said. BANDIPUR, India, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Political observers in violence-weary Kashmir say voters have turned out in record numbers at state elections to demand better living conditions. |
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| Friday, December 19CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he expects his country to keep about the same number of troops in Afghanistan for several years. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The first anniversary of Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination will be honored with a commemorative coin, a government release says. |
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| Thursday, December 18KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai criticized coming U.S. military plans Thursday and asked for a new pact to be drawn up between the international community and the Afghan government, just as President-elect Barack Obama, who has made the war here a priority, prepares to take office next month. |
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| Wednesday, December 17ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Pakistani Taliban video sent to the BBC shows the killing of five tribal men accused of aiding in the Jan. 19 death of al-Qaida leader Abu Laith al-Libi. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military says heavy fighting near a key Tamil Tiger stronghold in the northern part of the island nation left 120 rebels and 25 soldiers dead. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Bangladesh's military-backed interim government reinstated people's fundamental rights Tuesday, ending nearly two years of emergency rule ahead of elections. |
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| Tuesday, December 16KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. military officials are privately grumbling about what they consider Britain's poor performance in Afghanistan's Helmand province, sources say. |
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| Monday, December 15PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Pakistani truck drivers working to transport military supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan say they're striking to protest security problems along the route. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush ended his likely last visit to theaters of war in Afghanistan where he met Monday with U.S. troops and the Afghan president. |
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| Sunday, December 14KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan Monday, visiting with the U.S. troops and meeting President Hamid Karzai. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Indian warplanes twice crossed into Pakistan's airspace, but Pakistani officials say the violations were inadvertent. |
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| Saturday, December 13KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A roadside bomb detonated near a Canadian military armored vehicle Saturday, killing three soldiers and wounding a fourth, authorities said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- India has objected to plans in Bangledesh to construct a life-size copy of the Taj Mahal. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- NATO troops on patrol on Afghanistan opened fire on a bus that failed to heed their warnings to stop, killing four people on board, authorities said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says four soldiers killed in explosions in Afghanistan during his visit to the country will be remembered. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- NATO officials are planning a new supply route to Afghanistan through Russia and central Asia, avoiding dangerous territory in Pakistan, sources say. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Attackers suspected to be Taliban militants targeted cargo terminals in Peshawar in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, officials said Saturday. |
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| Thursday, December 11KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told troops in Afghanistan that sense of duty prompted him to remain as Pentagon chief under President-elect Barack Obama. |
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| Wednesday, December 10WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A lesson from the Mumbai attacks should be not underestimating terrorists' potential, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said Wednesday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. troops erroneously killed six Afghan police officers and one civilian Wednesday in an attack on a suspected Taliban leader's hideout, officials said. |
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| Tuesday, December 9KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A Taliban leader, believed responsible for suicide bombings, kidnappings and torture, has been killed, NATO military leaders said Tuesday. |
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| Monday, December 8KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Afghan forces raided a Taliban safe house in Jalalabad after getting a credible tip on an assassination plot against the provincial governor, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Pakistani authorities raided a Kashmir military camp and arrested the suspected mastermind of last month's Mumbai terrorist attacks, sources say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Pakistani authorities raided a Kashmir military camp and arrested the suspected mastermind of last month's Mumbai terrorist attacks, sources say. |
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| Sunday, December 7KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Most of the fresh U.S. soldiers to be sent to Afghanistan will be deployed to defend the capital Kabul, indicating the vulnerability of the country, officials said. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A security guard was killed and two employees were wounded Sunday in an attack by Pakistani militants on a Peshawar freight supply terminal, officials said. |
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| Friday, December 5KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A roadside bomb in Afghanistan killed three Canadian soldiers and seriously injured two others Friday near Kandahar, military officials said. |
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| Thursday, December 4ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Pakistan's major political parties have condemned the Mumbai terrorist massacre, but reject Indian charges it was masterminded by militants in their country. |
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| Wednesday, December 3ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen pressed Pakistani officials Wednesday to explore all links between the Mumbai attacks and groups based in Pakistan. |
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| Tuesday, December 2ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Pakistan has offered to join with the Indian government to investigate last week's terror attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, officials said. |
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| Thursday, November 27UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Nov. 27 (UPI) -- The Taliban has been working to keep the price of opium up by cutting poppy production in Afghanistan, a U.N. report released Thursday said. |
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| Tuesday, November 25ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's government has closed the political wing of the Inter-Services Intelligence, its military-run spy agency. |
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| Monday, November 24ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military, claiming a major victory in the violence-wracked northwest region, said its security forces killed 25 militants and arrested 40 more. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The Bangladeshi military-backed interim government, agreeing to the demand of one of the main parties, has postponed the country's election date. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan army's offensive against rebel Tamil Tigers now includes attacks on Kilinochchi, the rebels' de facto capital, military leaders said Monday. |
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| Sunday, November 23KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Afghan and U.S. forces said Sunday they killed 17 Taliban militants in a Kandahar province air assault. |
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| Saturday, November 22KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A French solider on a mine-clearing mission was killed and another injured in Afghanistan Saturday, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Afghan farmers brought their harvest to the first international pomegranate fair, held in a showground outside Kabul. |
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| Friday, November 21DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaldea Zia's party has agreed to take part in the elections if held on Dec. 28 instead of Dec. 18 as originally planned. |
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| Thursday, November 20COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military, claiming more victories against the Tamil Tigers, said it breached the rebels' first defense line in the northern Jaffna peninsula. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Pakistan's foreign ministry says it summoned the U.S. ambassador to its offices to formally protest a recent missile strike against suspected militants. |
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| Wednesday, November 19WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. military officials are contemplating longer but safer overland supply routes to Afghanistan through Europe as militants step up attacks, documents show. |
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| Monday, November 17ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents rejected an offer of talks from Kabul Monday and threatened for the first time to strike a target in the West, suggesting many years of violent conflict to come. Mullah Omar, the Taliban head in Afghanistan, will likely not renounce his group's violent ways under a new proposed deal, a White House official said Monday. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Nepal's political parties have begun work on a new national constitution and will have it drafted by May 2010, party sources say. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- An allegedly drunken Indian border guard strayed into Bangladesh and killed three villagers before being captured by local residents, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Three Pakistani soldiers were killed Monday when a suicide car bomber rammed a military checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Coalition forces killed 38 militants in weekend clashes in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Pakistan had no choice but to approach the International Monetary Fund under pressure from its allies, a finance ministry official said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Pakistani security forces and a tribal army killed 16 militants in separate clashes in the tribal Bajaur region, witnesses and sources said. |
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| Sunday, November 16KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Thirty Taliban militants have been killed by U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan's Helmand province, officials said Sunday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The United States and Pakistan have a tacit agreement allowing the use of missile-firing drones against Pakistani militants, sources say. |
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| Saturday, November 15POONERYN, Sri Lanka, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka says government soldiers have entered a strategic stronghold city of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Ten Taliban militants and foreign fighters were slain Saturday in eastern Afghanistan in a U.S.-led raid, officials said. |
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| Thursday, November 13KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The death toll rose to 19, including a U.S. soldier, Thursday in a suicide car-bomb attack on a U.S. military convoy in Afghanistan, officials said. |
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| Wednesday, November 12MALE, Maldives, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed says he wants to buy land elsewhere in order to relocate his entire island country. |
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| Tuesday, November 11BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Veterans Day was special for 77 U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan who officially became U.S. citizens Tuesday while deployed to Bagram Air Field. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Military advisers to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama favor taking a regional approach to the war in Afghanistan, including engaging Iran, sources say. |
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| Monday, November 10ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Pakistani militants in the Khyber Pass area hijacked 13 trucks taking supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan as security forces watched, officials told Dawn. BAJAUR, Pakistan, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Fourteen Pakistani militants were killed when jets bombed targets in the northwestern tribal areas, officials said. |
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| Sunday, November 9KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A Canadian journalist rescued from Afghan kidnappers says she wasn't mistreated by her captors during her month-long ordeal. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Thirty-seven Afghan civilians died during fighting last week between U.S. forces and Taliban militants near Kandahar, officials acknowledged. |
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| Saturday, November 8OTTAWA, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A Canadian radio reporter kidnapped four weeks ago in Afghanistan has been released, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Saturday. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A classified United States' review of its Afghanistan policies is likely to conclude the violence-torn country is in a dire situation, sources say. |
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| Friday, November 7ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Nine people died Friday in what Pakistani military officials said they suspected was a U.S. missile strike in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned to Bangladesh Thursday following medical treatment in the Untied States to contest in the Dec. 18 elections. |
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| Thursday, November 6KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A new report of Afghanistan civilian deaths in a U.S. airstrike fanned more furor Thursday, officials said. |
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| Wednesday, November 5KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's interior ministry says three children were killed Wednesday and six others injured when an old shell they were playing with exploded in Kabul. |
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| Tuesday, November 4WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Taliban forces pulled off a deadly surprise attack against U.S. soldiers last summer with the help of Afghan police, a Pentagon report alleged Tuesday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- About 20,000 people die of snakebites worldwide each year, more than half of them in India, a study reveals. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus made his first visit Tuesday to Afghanistan as head of Central Command. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Local leaders helped Taliban militants in a deadly July attack on U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan, an internal review by the U.S. military indicated. |
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| Monday, November 3DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Bangladesh's military-backed interim government has eased some of its emergency rule measures ahead of elections set for next month. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is urging a top U.S. military commander to halt drone missile attacks targeting Taliban militants inside Pakistan. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. military says Afghan commandoes and coalition forces destroyed more than 44 tons of hashish at a drug-making facility in Kandahar province Monday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. military says it is seeking a private contractor experienced in falconry to control the bird population at busy Bagram air base in Afghanistan. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- About 1,500 pounds of bomb-making material was discovered and destroyed in Afghanistan by Canadian forces, the military said. |
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| Sunday, November 2ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Gen. David Petraeus, the head of the U.S. Central Command, has arrived in Pakistan to meet with government and military officials. WANA, Pakistan, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A suicide truck bomber and gun battles in Pakistan Sunday claimed at least 18 lives and left an undetermined number of others wounded, authorities said. |
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| Saturday, November 1ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- More than 20 people died in U.S. missile strikes in Pakistani villages close to the Afghanistan border Saturday, Pakistani officials said. LONDON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The top British special forces commander in Afghanistan has resigned to protest lack of proper equipment given to troops in the conflict zone, sources say. |
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| Friday, October 31WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The capture of Osama bin Laden, or any other surprise, isn't expected before Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, a White House spokesman said Friday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- An Afghan man has been beheaded in his native land after his request for asylum in Australia was rejected, an official says. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A major al-Qaida figure is believed to have died in a U.S. airstrike into Pakistan earlier this month, anti-terrorism officials said. |
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| Thursday, October 30KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Intense noise level in Afghanistan's war zone has caused severe or permanent hearing damage among hundreds of British troops, The Times of London has learned. |
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| Wednesday, October 29MALE, Maldives, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Challenger Mohamed Nasheed defeated Asia's longest serving leader, Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, in a runoff election, officials said. |
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| Tuesday, October 28COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- A power station in Colombo was damaged in a rare aerial bombardment by Sri Lankan rebels Tuesday night, government defense officials said. |
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| Monday, October 27PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. drone aircraft attack in Pakistan's South Waziristan region left two Taliban commanders and 18 other people dead, an official and a local resident say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. military helicopter made a forced landing after sustaining Taliban gunfire in Afghanistan, officials said Monday. |
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| Sunday, October 26ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. drone aircraft attack killed seven people Sunday night at a compound along Pakistan's northern tribal border region, a Pakistani military official said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. military is considering sending elite troops to Afghanistan to target insurgency hotspots, officials say. |
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| Friday, October 24BANNU, Pakistan, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. missile killed nine people Friday at an Islamic school in Pakistan where a suspected militant leader was thought to be staying, an analyst says. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Former Nepalese King Gyanendra and his family must pay overdue electricity bills of about $1 million or face power cuts in their palaces and homes. |
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| Wednesday, October 22ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan has sought an emergency bailout from the International Monetary Fund, a humiliating step forced on Islamabad after allies refused to come up with the cash needed to prevent the country going bust. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- The Afghan Defense Ministry said Wednesday airstrikes by international forces against suspected Taliban hideouts resulted in the deaths of nine of its soldiers. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- A roadside blast hit a Pakistani security forces convoy in the Swat district of the troubled northwest region, killing several soldiers, sources told Geo TV. |
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| Tuesday, October 21KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Following the killing of an aid worker in Kabul, the Afghan government is reviewing how best to protect all such foreign aid workers, officials say. LONDON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The West's will to continue fighting in Afghanistan is wavering and reluctance to send troops into tough war zones is rising, a NATO military chief says. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Coalition forces in Afghanistan say they have detained four suspected Taliban and al-Qaida militants in a pair of operations. |
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| Monday, October 20COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan army says it broke through Tamil Tiger defenses in northern portions of the country, capturing 14 rebel bunkers. |
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| Sunday, October 19KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- The Afghan reality TV series "Koran-Star" has enjoyed great success since debuting, earning an 80 percent audience share, TV officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- At least 40 people kidnapped from a bus in southern Afghanistan have been killed by Taliban militants, an official said Sunday. |
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| Saturday, October 18LONDON, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A general who favors increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan has been named head of the British army. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- China is expected to offer vital financial assistance to the struggling Asian country of Pakistan, officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A former provincial official in Afghanistan is now the Taliban commander in Herat and says he wants U.S. forces out of the country. |
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| Friday, October 17WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. military is beginning a training effort inside Pakistan aimed at helping Pakistanis fight tribal militants, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A U.S. soldier died after being shot at by an Afghan policeman in eastern Afghanistan, the second such incident in a month, officials said. |
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| Thursday, October 16KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A member of the U.S. armed forces serving in Afghanistan was killed Thursday when a member of the Afghan National Police attacked a convoy, the military says. KABUL, Pakistan, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A suspected U.S. missile strike Thursday killed up to four people in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region, witnesses and officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban told the BBC the militants operating in the nation's troubled northwest region are willing to talk with the government. |
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| Tuesday, October 14ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Pakistani security forces claimed at least 43 militants were killed in fighting at two different locations in the troubled northwest region. |
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| Monday, October 13KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. and British officials have concluded there can be no military victory over Taliban insurgents, Time Magazine says. |
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| Sunday, October 12KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A Taliban commander killed by British forces in Afghanistan last year was actually a Pakistani military officer, Afghan sources say. |
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| Saturday, October 11KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Nine Taliban and al-Qaida militants were killed in Afghanistan in two separate operations by U.S.-led coalition forces, officials said Saturday. |
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| Thursday, October 9WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Government corruption and increased militant violence are leading Afghanistan in a downward spiral, a classified U.S. intelligence report says. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Pakistan's powerful military met with lawmakers in a rare secret session to brief the latter about its fight against terrorism in the country. |
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| Wednesday, October 8KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A Pentagon investigation into U.S. airstrikes in western Afghanistan is said to have concluded that more civilians died than field commanders acknowledged. MALE, Maldives, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Maldivian President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom fought Wednesday to retain his title in the first multiparty presidential poll on the Indian Ocean island nation. |
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| Monday, October 6ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- At least 20 people were killed and more than 60 were injured Monday in a suicide bomb attack aimed at a lawmaker in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- At least 70 people died and 120 buildings were destroyed in a weekend earthquake in southern Kyrgyzstan, the government said. NEW DELHI, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Indian media gave prominent play to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's reported statement that India has never been a threat to his country. |
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| Sunday, October 5KATHMANDU, Nepal, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A Brit, a New Zealander and a Canadian Sunday become the first to parachute over Mount Everest, authorities in Nepal say. LONDON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Britain's top Afghanistan military commander says the war against the Taliban cannot be won and the British public should be prepared for a deal. |
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| Friday, October 3PARIS, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A leaked French diplomatic cable quotes the British ambassador in Afghanistan as predicting that the NATO-led military campaign against the Taliban will fail. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A suspected missile strike killed at least 10 people Friday in the Pakistani village of Lund Mohammad Khel, a military official said. MULTAN, Pakistan, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani says Pakistan has a right to ask for a similar civilian nuclear deal the United States has reached with India. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Friday he would guarantee the safety of Mullah Omar if the Afghan Taliban leader returned home. |
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| Wednesday, October 1CAIRO, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Osama bin Laden's top deputy eluded Pakistani troops in the country's tribal areas after they got close to his hideout, another Islamist leader says. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban chief blamed for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, is alive, a Tehrik-e-Taliban spokesman said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Pakistani security officials said a suspected U.S. drone missile strike Wednesday in a Taliban-haven tribal area killed at least four people. |
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| Tuesday, September 30COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Fighting between Sri Lankan government forces and Tamil Tigers has left 53 rebels and five soldiers dead, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Pakistani army chief Ashfaq Kayani appointed Lt. Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha to be the head of the powerful spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence. |
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| Monday, September 29ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military said 15 militants died and several others were wounded in clashes with security forces in the violence-wracked Bajaur tribal region. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military claimed its forces killed 62 Tamil Tiger rebels and lost three of its own in weekend battles in the island nation's northern region. |
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| Saturday, September 27ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The Pakistani army says it will defeat Taliban and al-Qaida militants in the Bajaur tribal region within three months. LONDON, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- British troops to be removed from Iraq will not be redeployed to Afghanistan despite a resurgence of Taliban activity, military sources say. |
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| Friday, September 26COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan troops killed 48 members of the Tamil Tigers rebel group while suffering four casualties near the city of Kilinochchi, the military says. |
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| Thursday, September 25KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Pakistani forces allegedly fired on a group of NATO-led helicopters in eastern Afghanistan Thursday, officials say. |
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| Wednesday, September 24ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Pakistani officials said Wednesday they have found the wreckage of a downed U.S. drone inside the country, but U.S. officials denied the report. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Pakistan will seek nuclear fuel assistance from China in a bid to build 10 new nuclear power plants over the next 22 years, sources say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has set up a high-powered strategy group to curb terrorism following the Marriott Hotel blast. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Pakistan's military said its troops killed more than 50 militants Tuesday while losing one of its own in clashes in the country's troubled northwest region. |
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| Tuesday, September 23PARIS, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy secured parliamentary backing for a continued military commitment in Afghanistan but critics warn of trouble ahead. |
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| Saturday, September 20DHAKA, Bangladesh, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- The caretaker government in Bangladesh has scheduled a general election for Dec. 18, Fakhruddin Ahmed, the election chief adviser, announced Saturday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari says he won't allow either terrorists or foreign forces fighting them to violate the country's sovereignty. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- A suicide car bomber killed six people in Pakistan's North West Frontier province Saturday when the vehicle slammed into an army convoy, officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- The Australian Defense Force is investigating the shooting of several Afghan police officers and a district governor by Australian soldiers. |
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| Friday, September 19WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The long-delayed plan to send U.S. military advisers to Pakistan to train its army could happen in a matter of weeks, a top U.S. military official said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- This week's Pakistan trip of U.S. Adm. Michael Mullen came amid rising concerns about the escalating insurgency in that nation's tribal areas. |
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| Wednesday, September 17KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, visiting Afghanistan Wednesday, apologized for the deaths of Afghan citizens from recent U.S. and allied airstrikes. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan says more than 10,000 extra troops are needed besides the additions announced by U.S. President George Bush. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff arrived in Pakistan where officials are upset over an anti-insurgent incursion by U.S. troops in Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Four coalition force soldiers and an Afghan national died Wednesday in a roadside bombing in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said. |
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| Monday, September 15KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's fledgling air force has made strides in the past year but still is years away from self-sufficiency, a top U.S. military official said Monday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Two U.S. helicopters carrying troops allegedly were stopped Monday from entering South Waziristan by the Pakistani army and local tribes. |
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| Saturday, September 13KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- The Nepalese government is to begin urging Tibetan citizens illegally living in Nepal to return to India, a Home Ministry official says. |
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| Thursday, September 11ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- The commander of the Pakistani army has warned the United States against sending forces from Afghanistan into Pakistan to pursue Taliban and al-Qaida fighters. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush secretly approved orders in July for missions in Pakistan without Islamabad's prior approval, U.S. officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, says no outside forces are allowed to conduct military operations inside the country. |
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| Wednesday, September 10WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- The top U.S. military commander said Wednesday that while victory in Afghanistan is possible, the current strategy is not leading Americans in that direction. VAUGHAN, Ontario, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A Conservative government would withdraw most Canadian troops from Afghanistan in 2011, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A Bangladeshi high court granted bail to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, detained a year ago by the military-backed interim government on corruption charges. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan government said Wednesday its air force jets bombed the main intelligence command of the Tiger rebels. |
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| Tuesday, September 9WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Additional U.S. troops will be deployed to Afghanistan beginning in November, U.S. President George Bush announced Tuesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Asif Ali Zardari, husband of slain Benazir Bhutto, Tuesday took the oath of office as Pakistani president. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan defense ministry said its air force Tuesday shot down a plane belonging to the Tamil Tiger rebels in the Tamil-stronghold northern region. |
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| Monday, September 8KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- A solemn sunset ramp ceremony Monday was held in Afghanistan for Canadian Sgt. Scott Shipway, killed in a roadside bomb attack. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Islamic terrorists are trying to take advantage of political chaos in Pakistan to obtain radioactive materials for a so-called "dirty bomb," sources say. |
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| Saturday, September 6PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- At least 30 people were killed and more than 70 hurt Saturday by a suicide car bomb blast in Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Asif Ali Zardari, the spouse of the late former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Saturday became Pakistan's new president, officials said. |
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| Friday, September 5ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The spouse of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto poised to follow Pervez Musharraf as the country's leader has a pro-West bent, an analyst says. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A 65-year-old judge in Afghanistan, who headed an appeals court dealing with drug cases, was killed in Kabul, authorities said. |
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| Thursday, September 4ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- In the aftermath of an extraordinary U.S. military foray into Pakistan's tribal area earlier this week, the U.S. faced stiff condemnation Thursday from Pakistani officials who argued that their government had been undermined by the apparently unilateral American action on Pakistan's soil. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The Bush administration may be relieved, but some Pakistanis fear the worst when Pakistan's parliament meets Saturday for the almost certain election of Asif Ali Zardari as president, succeeding the ousted former military leader Pervez Musharraf. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's Kandahar province claimed responsibility for killing three Canadian soldiers and injuring five others in an ambush. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The United States, having sent troops on a raid into Pakistan, may be employing a new strategy against militants staging attacks on Afghanistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Pakistan strongly condemned an operation by coalition forces from Afghanistan in a Pakistani tribal area, saying it resulted in many civilian deaths. |
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| Wednesday, September 3SYDNEY, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Australia's defense minister is backing his country's military against charges it mistreated Taliban captives in Afghanistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Two bullets hit the car carrying Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani Wednesday but the Pakistani leader was not hurt, officials said. |
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| Tuesday, September 2HELMAND, Afghanistan, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- British military officers say they have moved a hydroelectric turbine capable of supplying power to 1.9 million people through Taliban territory. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Military officials say a sailor from Lexington, N.C., was the 500th U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan since the war's start in 2001. |
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| Monday, September 1COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military says 42 Tamil Tiger rebels and five of its soldiers died in heavy fighting in the island nation's troubled northern region. |
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| Sunday, August 31KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan rebels say the country's military is responsible for the deaths of five civilians at a refugee camp in the northern town of Kilinochchi. |
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| Saturday, August 30KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- About 800 U.S. soldiers have joined Canadian forces in Kandahar province in Afghanistan, officials said Saturday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Airstrikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan killed more than 30 Taliban militants in the two countries, military officials said Saturday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A suicide bombing near Peshawar in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province has killed at least three people and injured 37. |
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| Friday, August 29ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- The head of the Pakistan People's Party, Asif Ali Zardari, should withdraw from the presidential race due to his mental health, an opposition official says. |
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| Thursday, August 28ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Pakistani officials are trying to alleviate Western concerns over the security of its nuclear weapons program. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A baby born with two heads has died in Bangladesh after contracting a fever and suffering breathing difficulties, The Mirror said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, August 27KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A June prison break that freed 900 prisoners has pointed out the renewed strength of Taliban forces and the weakness of the Afghan government, observers say. MUMBAI, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Muslim militants took a family of six hostage in the troubled state of Kashmir Wednesday after shooting at least three people, including an Indian army officer. |
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| Monday, August 25ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Pakistan's coalition government collapsed Monday after minority party leader Nawaz Sharif said his party would withdraw from the 5-month-old government. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam has been officially charged under the Asian nation's terrorism act after five months in custody, activists say. |
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| Sunday, August 24SWAT VALLEY, Pakistan, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Pakistani soldiers, responding to an earlier powerful suicide bomb blast, pounded Taliban positions in the Swat Valley, killing 50 militants, officials say. |
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| Saturday, August 23KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed U.S. forces Saturday for civilian deaths in his country's western region. |
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| Friday, August 22ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Pakistan's Taliban, claiming responsibility for two separate bombings this week that killed about 100 people, have vowed more such attacks. |
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| Thursday, August 21ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Twin suicide bombings at Pakistan's main military weapons plant north of Islamabad Thursday killed a reported 70 people and wounded 90 others, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a surprise visit Thursday to Afghanistan to meet with British troops in Helmand province and President Hamid Karzai. |
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| Tuesday, August 19ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The Pakistani ruling coalition showed signs of fracture Tuesday, only a day after embattled President Pervez Musharraf resigned to avoid impeachment, raising questions about how the coalition will tackle the major crises facing the South Asian nation. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The Pakistani ruling coalition that engineered President Pervez Musharraf's resignation must show it is ready to lead, political analysts said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The leadership of the Pakistani ruling coalition met again Tuesday to decide on a course of action following the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf. |
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| Monday, August 18ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, facing possible impeachment, announced his resignation Monday and lawmakers immediately accepted it. LASKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- British defense sources contend Taliban forces in Afghanistan caused the deaths of several civilians by placing them at risk. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The events leading up to embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation Monday may have left him with no other choice. |
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| Sunday, August 17KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- More than two dozen Taliban fighters were killed during an unsuccessful ambush of a NATO supply convoy Sunday, Afghan officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military, which has directly ruled the country for half its existence, appears determined to not intervene in the latest crisis, analysts say. |
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| Saturday, August 16KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Nepal's newly elected prime minister will take his oath of office Monday, political leaders say. |
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| Friday, August 15ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Pakistan says 32 militants were killed in clashes in the Bajaur tribal area but it was not clear whether the dead included a senior Taliban commander. |
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| Thursday, August 14ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf intends to resign before his nation's parliament takes up impeachment proceedings against him, CBS News reported Thursday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- President Pervez Musharraf, under impeachment threat, said in a televised address Pakistan needs political stability to fight terrorism and for economic growth. |
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| Wednesday, August 13PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- The roadside bombing of a Pakistani military vehicle by suspected Islamic militants has left at least 14 people dead, authorities said Wedbesday. |
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| Tuesday, August 12PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A bomb, apparently targeting a Pakistani air force bus, went off Tuesday in Peshawar, killing at least 12 people, police said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, refusing to resign, says he will disprove the charges against him from the ruling coalition that wants to impeach him. |
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| Monday, August 11ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Pakistani security forces engaged in pitched battles with Taliban fighters Monday, leaving an estimated 50 militants dead, local media reported. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- At least 33 people, including eight civilians, died in a coalition airstrike in southern Afghanistan, military officials said Monday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The charge-sheet against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who faces impeachment, are strong and voluminous, a government minister said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- An English-language audio message purportedly from al-Qaida No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged Pakistanis to support the Jihadi movement. |
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| Sunday, August 10ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- The wife of Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan said President Pervez Musharraf lied about her husband's role in the country's nuclear program. |
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| Saturday, August 9NEW DELHI, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir has erupted over 98 acres in the Himalayas, Hindus and Muslims say. |
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| Friday, August 8KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Major political parties in Nepal scrambled to form a government before a Friday deadline set by the president of the Himalayan republic. |
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| Thursday, August 7ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Pakistan's ruling coalition has agreed to impeach President Pervez Musharraf in an unprecedented move hailed as "good news for democracy." ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Pakistani military forces claimed it killed 25 militants and injured 35 more in clashes in the Bajaur tribal agency. |
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| Tuesday, August 5KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The United Nations says NATO forces in Afghanistan have agreed to new guidelines meant to stop the blurring of distinctions between soldiers and aid workers. SKARDU, Pakistan, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A third climber who survived a deadly ice avalanche on K2, the world's second highest mountain, was rescued Tuesday, a Pakistani official said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Clashes in the Swat valley in Pakistan's north-west region claimed the lives of at least 94 militants and 14 soldiers, an army official told the BBC. |
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| Monday, August 4SKARDU, Pakistan, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Two survivors of a deadly avalanche on K2, the world's second-tallest mountain, were airlifted to a Pakistani hospital Monday, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The strategy of a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan is not to control territory but to outlast NATO and U.S. forces, the militant group's leaders assert. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Local elections Monday in Bangladesh were being watched closely to determine if the country's emergency security decree would hamper freedom, observers said. |
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| Sunday, August 3LONDON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The British intelligence group MI5 is using surveillance aircraft to find British nationals who fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Daily Mail says. |
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| Thursday, July 31ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 31 (UPI) -- At least 13 civilians were killed in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley when their homes were hit by mortar shells, officials said. |
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| Wednesday, July 30WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Department officials say they are looking for more troops and assets to send to Afghanistan, but nothing has presented itself so far. |
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| Tuesday, July 29NEW DELHI, July 29 (UPI) -- Indian and Pakistani border troops in Kashmir exchanged fire, resulting in an Indian soldier's death, defense sources told the Press Trust of India. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 29 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government has had to reverse its decision to put its powerful spy agency under civilian control but is yet to explain its move. |
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| Monday, July 28ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 28 (UPI) -- A Pakistani Taliban cleric says a large number of suicide bombers are ready to take on the military if it launches more operations in the Swat valley. |
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| Saturday, July 26ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 26 (UPI) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani vowed Saturday to increase anti-terrorism efforts in his country. LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, July 26 (UPI) -- Four civilians were killed by British troops Saturday in southern Afghanistan after allegedly failing to stop at a checkpoint, NATO said. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 25 (UPI) -- A British Army dog handler and a bomb-sniffing dog were killed by small arms fire while on patrol in Helmand Province in Afghanistan, the Army said Friday. |
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| Thursday, July 24KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 24 (UPI) -- Efforts to form a government in Nepal under its new president began Thursday but the task may prove difficult with the Maoists sitting out. |
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| Wednesday, July 23KABUL, Afghanistan, July 23 (UPI) -- A bomb struck a military vehicle in Afghanistan's Helmand province, killing a British soldier and injuring two others, the defense ministry said Wednesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 23 (UPI) -- Baitullah Mehsud's Pakistani Taliban group has warned officials in the tribal northwest province of severe attacks if their military operations don't stop. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 23 (UPI) -- The party of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has given an Aug. 15 deadline to its coalition partner to resolve various pending issues. |
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| Monday, July 21ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 21 (UPI) -- A Pakistani court has ordered nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan freed from house arrest in Islamabad. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, July 21 (UPI) -- Heavy fighting broke out Monday in Sri Lanka, with 39 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels slain as troops advanced on LTTE strongholds, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 20 (UPI) -- Presumptive Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama met with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Sunday in Kabul, officials said. |
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| Sunday, July 20FARAH, Afghanistan, July 20 (UPI) -- Nine police officers were killed by friendly fire in southwestern Afghanistan Sunday, military officials said. |
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| Saturday, July 19KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, July 19 (UPI) -- A bomb detonated and killed a Canadian soldier on patrol in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, military officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 19 (UPI) -- Presumptive Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama will meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during his visit to Afghanistan, an official says. KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 19 (UPI) -- A runoff will be held in Nepal to determine the country's first president after Saturday's election failed to produce a majority winner, an official says. |
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| Thursday, July 17ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 17 (UPI) -- A leader of Pakistan's coalition reportedly plans a Washington visit to win support to remove Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 17 (UPI) -- Nepal's 601-member constituent assembly has two more days to elect the republic's first president but as of Thursday no common candidate had been found. WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- The United States may consider raising troop strength in Afghanistan even as it considers cuts in Iraq, top defense officials indicated. |
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| Wednesday, July 16ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 16 (UPI) -- A patient with dengue virus was receiving treatment at an Islamabad, Pakistan, hospital, officials have confirmed. WANAT, Afghanistan, July 16 (UPI) -- NATO-led forces say they have abandoned an Afghanistan military outpost that Taliban insurgents overran this week, killing nine U.S. soldiers. WASHINGTON, July 16 (UPI) -- The United States and Pakistan disagree over what went wrong when U.S. airstrikes killed 11 Pakistani fighters last month, sources say. |
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| Tuesday, July 15KABUL, Afghanistan, July 15 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday he opposes the United States' possible use of Afghanistan for an attack against Iran. ALBUQUERQUE, July 15 (UPI) -- John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president, said Tuesday the strategy that worked in Iraq can work in Afghanistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 15 (UPI) -- There is no reason to be concerned about a buildup of NATO forces on the Afghan border, a Pakistani general said Tuesday. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 15 (UPI) -- U.S. commanders in Afghanistan, where roadside bombings have risen, have asked for hundreds of the new armored vehicles that can withstand such attacks. |
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| Sunday, July 13COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, July 13 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military claimed Sunday its troops had killed 36 Tamil Tiger rebels and wounded 16 others in intense weekend fighting. TARIN KOWT, Afghanistan, July 13 (UPI) -- A pair of suicide bombings killed at least 25 people in Afghanistan Sunday, officials said. HANGU, Pakistan, July 13 (UPI) -- Sixteen pro-government paramilitary fighters were killed by Taliban forces in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province, media reports said Sunday. |
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| Friday, July 11KABUL, Afghanistan, July 11 (UPI) -- Afghan government officials say a U.S. aircraft bombed a civilian wedding party in Afghanistan last Sunday, killing 47 people, almost all women and children. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 11 (UPI) -- An investigation is under way into an incident of friendly fire in which nine British soldiers in Afghanistan were injured, British military officials said. |
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| Thursday, July 10KABUL, Afghanistan, July 10 (UPI) -- Deploring the growing violence in Afghanistan, the Red Cross says at least 250 civilians have died or been injured since last Friday in various attacks. |
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| Tuesday, July 8KABUL, Afghanistan, July 8 (UPI) -- U.S. military officials said Tuesday the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has moved into the Gulf of Oman to give its warplanes access to Afghanistan. |
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| Monday, July 7ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 5 (UPI) -- The Pakistani scientist accused of operating a nuclear proliferation ring says President Pervez Musharraf approved a sale of weapons to North Korea. NURISTAN, Afghanistan, July 5 (UPI) -- An Afghan lawmaker was gunned down on a day when 10 Taliban fighters were killed by their own bomb and others died in a disputed U.S. air strike, officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 6 (UPI) -- At least 23 people were killed in Afghanistan Sunday when coalition aircraft dropped bombs that exploded near a group walking to a wedding party, officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 6 (UPI) -- At least 19 people, including 15 police officers, were killed Sunday when a suicide bomber attacked a rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 6 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into allegations that 15 civilians were killed in a U.S. military strike against militants. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, July 4 (UPI) -- Fighting in Sri Lanka's northern region Friday left 32 rebels and two government soldiers dead, the Asian nation's military said. |
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| Friday, July 4ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 3 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government's new offensive against Islamist insurgents is "not very effective," several Pakistani politicians say. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 2 (UPI) -- Coalition deaths in Afghanistan reached their highest-ever monthly totals in June as U.S. military officials warned they face a more complex insurgency. |
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| Wednesday, July 2KABUL, Afghanistan, July 1 (UPI) -- Italian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa visited Italian troops Tuesday in two regions of Afghanistan. |
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| Tuesday, July 1ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 1 (UPI) -- An explosion killed eight people and destroyed a pro-Taliban commander's compound in Pakistan's northwest region, the scene of an anti-insurgency campaign. |
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| Monday, June 30KABUL, Afghanistan, June 30 (UPI) -- The alleged members of an assassination plot against Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai were mostly government employees, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 30 (UPI) -- Pakistan's Air Force says a fighter jet breaking the sound barrier was responsible for two loud blasts Monday morning that frightened residents of Rawalpindi. WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- Arguments within the Bush administration and the CIA have hampered efforts to counter an al-Qaida build-up in Pakistan, The New York Times reported Monday. |
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| Saturday, June 28COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 28 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse expressed no interest Saturday in easing off his military's offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels. KATHMANDU, Nepal, June 28 (UPI) -- Nepalese government officials were unable to reach an agreement Saturday with the Nepal Petroleum Dealers Association, news media says. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, June 28 (UPI) -- Pakistan officials said they shelled Taliban positions outside Peshawar Saturday in response to the militants' increasing forays into the city's outskirts. |
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| Wednesday, June 25KABUL, Afghanistan, June 25 (UPI) -- Insurgent activity in Afghanistan has increased and spread into areas once considered stable, U.S. military data indicate. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 25 (UPI) -- Pakistan's ruling coalition plans a Supreme Court appeal of a court ruling barring former Prime Minister Nawz Sharif from contesting a parliamentary election. |
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| Tuesday, June 24KABUL, Afghanistan, June 24 (UPI) -- British documentary director Sean Langan, who was kidnapped in Afghanistan and held hostage for three months, reportedly has been released. BONN, Germany, June 24 (UPI) -- In a move likely to be politically unpopular, the German government Tuesday said it wants to contribute more combat troops to the NATO mission in Afghanistan. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 24 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military said at least 31 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed while the government lost five soldiers in clashes in the northern region. LAHORE, Pakistan, June 24 (UPI) -- A Pakistani court barred former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, whose party is in the ruling coalition, from contesting in a parliamentary by-election. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 23 (UPI) -- Militants hiding in Pakistan were shelled by Afghanistan's NATO forces, who said they retaliated following rocket and military attacks from across the border. |
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| Sunday, June 22KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 21 (UPI) -- Six members of the international forces in Afghanistan were killed Saturday in several bomb attacks, military officials say. DHAKA, Bangladesh, June 21 (UPI) -- A Royal Bengal tiger has killed three villagers in southwestern Bangladesh, officials say. BERLIN, June 21 (UPI) -- The German defense minister plans to send 1,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan, a spokesman said Saturday. |
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| Thursday, June 19KABUL, Afghanistan, June 19 (UPI) -- Afghan troops, supported by NATO, drove out Taliban militants from villages in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, the governor said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, June 18KABUL, Afghanistan, June 18 (UPI) -- Two Afghan soldiers and at least 23 militants died during a military push to expel Taliban rebels from some southern villages, Afghan defense officials said. |
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| Tuesday, June 17ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan on Tuesday angrily rejected chilling new allegations against him that he sold a blueprint for a sophisticated nuclear warhead, claiming that Pakistan did not have the technology to have produced the design. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 17 (UPI) -- Persistent reports that Taliban militants are readying an offensive in Afghanistan's Kandahar province were downplayed Tuesday by military officials. |
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| Monday, June 16COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 16 (UPI) -- A suicide bomb attack Monday on a police station in northern Sri Lanka's Vavuniya region killed 12 police personnel, including three women, the military said. |
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| Sunday, June 15ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai Sunday inflamed relations with Islamabad by threatening to send troops into Pakistan to hunt down Taliban fighters who find sanctuary across the border. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 15 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan armed forces bombed and destroyed a key Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam command center Sunday, military officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 15 (UPI) -- U.S. and U.N. investigators say a busted Pakistani nuclear smuggling ring trafficked in much more advanced bomb designs than previously thought. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 15 (UPI) -- Military officials say the search for hundreds of escaped Taliban militants in Afghanistan has left 15 insurgents dead and led to the capture of five more. |
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| Saturday, June 14KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 8 (UPI) -- A 26-year-old Canadian soldier died in Afghanistan after stepping into a deep uncovered well while on night patrol outside of Kandahar, officials say. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The governor of Kandahar blamed Canadian soldiers for a deadly suicide bombing in Afghanistan, saying they ignored his warning of a bomber. FARAH, Afghanistan, June 14 (UPI) -- Military officials said four U.S. soldiers were killed and another was seriously wounded in Afghanistan Saturday in a roadside bomb blast. |
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| Friday, June 13KATHMANDU, Nepal, June 13 (UPI) -- Maoist leader Prachanda, who may become Nepal's next prime minister, says he wants his country to keep a policy of "equidistance" between China and India. LAHORE, Pakistan, June 13 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says President Pervez Musharraf is on his way out but that he won't be allowed to flee the country. KATHMANDU, Nepal, June 13 (UPI) -- Nepal's Maoist ministers, whose party won the most seats in recent polls, quit the interim regime in a bid to form their Maoist-led government. |
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| Thursday, June 12ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. military says a video of its deadly airstrike in the Afghan-Pakistani border region proves that U.S. forces were targeted by pro-Taliban militants. KATHMANDU, Nepal, June 12 (UPI) -- Ousted Nepal King Gyanendra and his family have moved out of their sprawling Kathmandu palace -- the final act of the Himalayan nation's 240-year-old monarchy. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan on Wednesday accused U.S.-led NATO forces of killing 11 paramilitary troops in an "unprovoked" and "senseless" air strike Tuesday night on their post just inside Pakistan's mountainous border with Afghanistan. |
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| Wednesday, June 11ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 11 (UPI) -- Pakistan accused U.S.-led forces of killing 11 Pakistani troops with an airstrike near the border with Afghanistan. DHAKA, Bangladesh, June 11 (UPI) -- Officials have released Bangladeshi opposition leader Sheikh Hasina from prison so she may be treated in the United States for several medical conditions. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 11 (UPI) -- A Tamil Tiger rebel attack on a Sri Lankan navy outpost Wednesday left three sailors and four rebels dead, the military said. |
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| Monday, June 9BAGRAM, Afghanistan, June 9 (UPI) -- Afghan women have made terrific strides since she first visited the country, U.S. first lady Laura Bush told U.S. troops at Bagram Air Base Monday. MOSCOW, June 9 (UPI) -- A top Russian official said Monday the country may resume shipping Russian arms to Afghanistan after the shipments ceased in 2005. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 9 (UPI) -- Several people died in the beleaguered northern region of Sri Lanka, with the military and rebels making counterclaims regarding results of the fighting. |
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| Sunday, June 8KABUL, Afghanistan, June 8 (UPI) -- The body of an Afghan journalist was found Sunday, a day after he was reported abducted, his employer, the BBC, reported. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 8 (UPI) -- A 26-year-old Canadian soldier died in Afghanistan after stepping into a deep uncovered well while on night patrol outside of Kandahar, officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 8 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf told reporters Saturday that rumors he plans to resign have no basis in fact. |
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| Saturday, June 7ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 7 (UPI) -- The government of Pakistan has asked the United Nations to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. |
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| Friday, June 6RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, June 6 (UPI) -- Police in Pakistan said they seized two vehicles carrying hundreds of pounds of explosives in Rawalpindi, foiling a possible bombing. |
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| Wednesday, June 4KABUL, Afghanistan, June 3 (UPI) -- More troops and equipment are needed to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, the outgoing U.S. general in charge of NATO forces said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, June 3 (UPI) -- Mass arrests in Bangladesh that have swept up thousands of political leaders, students and others won't stop anti-government movements, opposition leaders say. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 3 (UPI) -- Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan shot and killed a Canadian soldier on foot patrol Tuesday in the volatile Panjwai district, military officials said. |
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| Tuesday, June 3COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 3 (UPI) -- Flooding and fighting took a heavy toll in Sri Lanka where the military and Tamil rebels have been battling for months in the rebel areas in the north. |
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| Monday, June 2BADGHIS, Afghanistan, June 2 (UPI) -- Military officials said Monday NATO air raids over western Afghanistan, conducted in the wake of an attack on a police post, have killed 10 insurgents. DHAKA, Bangladesh, June 2 (UPI) -- Work on a proposed 15.5-mile long Bangladesh-Myanmar direct road link is expected to start next year, a Bangladeshi official said. |
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| Sunday, June 1COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 1 (UPI) -- At least 17 people have been killed in Sri Lanka in a fresh wave of clashes between militants and government troops, officials said Sunday. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 1 (UPI) -- A remote-controlled bomb hit a mini-bus carrying Afghan troops to the defense ministry Sunday, killing one person and injuring five others, police reported. |
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| Friday, May 30ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 30 (UPI) -- Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan says he regrets his 2004 confession to transferring nuclear technology and centrifuges to other countries. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 30 (UPI) -- Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani says it would be up to parliament to decide whether to impeach President Pervez Musharraf. |
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| Thursday, May 29ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 29 (UPI) -- A spokesman for President Pervez Musharraf denied news reports that the Pakistani leader planned to resign. |
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| Wednesday, May 28COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 28 (UPI) -- A journalist and a friend were found hacked to death in Sri Lanka Wednesday, a media group said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 28 (UPI) -- A NATO soldier died and four other coalition soldiers were wounded Wednesday in a roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan, the military said. |
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| Tuesday, May 27KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 27 (UPI) -- Nepal's Constituent Assembly, elected in April, was sworn in Tuesday with members preparing to abolish the Himalayan nation's 240-year-old monarchy. |
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| Monday, May 26ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 25 (UPI) -- The Pakistan People's Party announced in Islamabad proposed constitutional amendments that would re-seat deposed judges and limit presidential authority. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 25 (UPI) -- A 77-year-old man set a record Sunday for being the oldest person to reach the summit of Nepal's Mount Everest, officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 25 (UPI) -- One boy was killed and two more were injured Sunday when a car bomber crashed into a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan, authorities said. |
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| Saturday, May 24ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 24 (UPI) -- A Taliban commander based in Pakistan says he's intent on honoring a ceasefire with the new Pakistan government, as long as the army doesn't attack civilians. |
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| Wednesday, May 21ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 21 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf told visiting Indian officials Wednesday that Pakistan is committed to the 2004 peace process between the countries. |
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| Monday, May 19JALALABAD, Afghanistan, May 19 (UPI) -- An Afghan journalist sentenced to death for downloading and distributing an article questioning Islam says his confession was extracted by torture. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 19 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military and Tamil Tiger rebels fought fierce battles in the troubled northern region during the weekend, leaving dozens of people dead. NEW DELHI, May 19 (UPI) -- India's Foreign Ministry says New Delhi is open to talks with Nepal on the 1950 peace and friendship treaty the Himalayan country's Maoists want to scrap. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 19 (UPI) -- A suicide bomb attack in a military garrison area in the northwest Pakistan town of Mardan Sunday killed 12 people and injured several more. |
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| Sunday, May 11COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 11 (UPI) -- The ruling Sri Lankan coalition Sunday won 20 seats in debut elections in the country's eastern provinces amid claims of fraud and intimidation, officials said. 
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BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka's ruling party won control of the country's tense Eastern Province on Sunday after an election that monitors said was marred by voter intimidation and fraud. |
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| Saturday, May 10VALAICHCHENAI, Sri Lanka - A climate of fear hung over elections in Sri Lanka's tumultuous east Saturday following a series of attacks blamed on the rebels and accusations of intimidation against a breakaway rebel group backing the ruling party. BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka - Eastern Sri Lanka residents voted Saturday in their first major election, less than a year after the separatist rebels lost control of the region. The poll was hailed as a democratic milestone but marred by a rebel attacks, one that left 11 people dead. |
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| Friday, May 9KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 9 (UPI) -- Nepal reopened Mount Everest to climbing expeditions following China's success Thursday in taking its Olympic flame atop the world's tallest peak. |
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| Thursday, May 8ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 8 (UPI) -- Pakistan's coalition leaders met in London to discuss a draft parliamentary resolution on reinstating judges dismissed by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. |
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| Tuesday, May 6GARMSER, Afghanistan - The Marines of Bravo Company's 1st Platoon sleep beside a grove of poppies. Troops in the 2nd Platoon playfully swat at the heavy opium bulbs while walking through the fields. Afghan laborers scraping the plant's gooey resin smile and wave. |
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| Monday, May 5KABUL, Afghanistan, May 5 (UPI) -- Afghan officials blamed al-Qaida-backed militants for an attempt to kill President Hamid Karzai, despite the arrests of two low-ranking government workers. |
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| Saturday, May 3COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 3 (UPI) -- Fighting between members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and government troops has left 25 dead in Sri Lanka, officials said. |
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| Thursday, May 1ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 1 (UPI) -- The Taliban reportedly has regained control of Pakistan's Darra Adamkhel region and resumed its activities despite the presence of security forces. |
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| Wednesday, April 30LONDON, April 30 (UPI) -- Britain's Prince William secretly flew a C-17 military transport from England to Afghanistan to visit troops on the front line, royal officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 30 (UPI) -- The unresolved issue of Pakistani judges ousted during President Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule threatens to unravel the month-old coalition government. |
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| Tuesday, April 29COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 29 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a warm welcome in Sri Lanka where his country is assisting in two major energy projects. KATHMANDU, Nepal, April 29 (UPI) -- Nepal, apparently bowing to Chinese pressure, has reportedly asked the BBC to leave the base camp on its side of Mount Everest in the Himalayas. KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's intelligence chief says he warned the president of a weekend assassination plot against him. |
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| Monday, April 28KABUL, Afghanistan, April 28 (UPI) -- Funeral services were conducted Monday for a Shiite Muslim leader, one of three people killed in an assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai. |
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| Sunday, April 27KABUL, Afghanistan, April 27 (UPI) -- Oil-based paint likely was used in Afghanistan up to 800 years before it first appeared in European art, a study of cave paintings has found. |
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| Saturday, April 26COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 27 (UPI) -- Violence escalated in Sri Lanka with the arrest of nine suspects in a deadly bus bombing and a report that Tamil Tigers used light aircraft in a raid Sunday. |
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistan's new government and Taliban militants said Friday that they would press ahead with peace talks despite American skepticism and a militant bombing that killed three people at a police station. KHATHMANDU, Nepal, April 25 (UPI) -- The Maoists won 220 seats in the new Nepali parliament, winning more than any other party in both direct and proportional voting, officials said Friday. MADHU, Sri Lanka, April 25 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan troops, embroiled in a renewed civil war, took control of a church that has the country's most important Roman Catholic shrine, army officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 25 (UPI) -- India has joined Pakistan and Afghanistan in the $7.6 billion, 1,043-mile pipeline project to transport natural gas from Turkmenistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The top Taliban commander in Pakistan called a cease-fire Thursday and ordered followers to halt attacks, while the government said it was pursuing peace talks with tribal elders in the volatile border region. |
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| Thursday, April 24KATHMANDU, Nepal, April 24 (UPI) -- Nepalese officials Thursday finished counting votes cast in the April 10 election to the 601-constituent assembly, saying results will be announced soon. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 24 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels reportedly took heavy casualties in one of their fiercest clashes in the current wave of violence. |
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| Wednesday, April 23KABUL, Afghanistan, April 23 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's government has barred soap operas from television stations in an effort to thwart liberal reforms, officials said. OSLO, Norway, April 23 (UPI) -- Norwegian military authorities deny a lack of crucial equipment is endangering the country's troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. BERLIN, April 23 (UPI) -- An official with the German military union accused the government of neglecting troops in Afghanistan by not bolstering German peacekeeping forces. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 23 (UPI) -- Troops in Afghanistan reportedly killed 16 suspected Taliban militants in the past two days in the southern and eastern parts of the country. |
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| Monday, April 21BRUSSELS, April 21 (UPI) -- Bush administration efforts to persuade NATO members to send more troops to Afghanistan fell far short of the total needed, NATO leaders say. BERLIN, April 21 (UPI) -- German intelligence officials say they believe a German national held by the U.S. military in Afghanistan is innocent of terrorist charges. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 21 (UPI) -- Most of Afghanistan should be secured by 2011, allowing international peacekeeping forces to withdraw, a U.S. general said. OTTAWA, April 21 (UPI) -- The cost of Canada's combat role in Afghanistan in 2008 is expected to surpass $1 billion, a Defense Department document says. |
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| Sunday, April 20ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 20 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government has asked President Pervez Musharraf to abolish the death penalty, officials said. KATHMANDU, Nepal, April 20 (UPI) -- Nepal security forces have been authorized to open fire on pro-Tibet protesters while the Olympic flame is carried up Mount Everest, an official said. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 20 (UPI) -- The son of a Dutch general was killed in Afghanistan the day after his father became commander-in-chief of the country's armed forces. |
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| Saturday, April 19ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 19 (UPI) -- Pakistan successfully test-fired a long-range surface-to-surface missile Saturday, Pakistani military officials said. |
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| Friday, April 18TARIN KOWT, Afghanistan, April 18 (UPI) -- A roadside bomb exploded in the Afghan province of Uruzgan, killing two Dutch soldiers and injuring two others, military officials said. |
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| Thursday, April 17ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 17 (UPI) -- Pakistani justices fired by President Pervez Musharraf when he imposed emergency rule could be restored to office soon, a senior government official said. |
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| Tuesday, April 15ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 15 (UPI) -- Pakistan's National Assembly adopted a resolution to ask the United Nations to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. |
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| Monday, April 14KATHMANDU, Nepal, April 14 (UPI) -- The Maoists opposition group in Nepal may become the largest bloc in the 240-member Nepalese Constituent Assembly, poll results as of Monday showed. |
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| Sunday, April 13KATHMANDU, Nepal, April 13 (UPI) -- Maoists won more seats than expected in a test of the group's decade-long insurgent campaign, election observers said. |
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| Friday, April 11ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 11 (UPI) -- Inflation in Pakistan reached a monthly record 14.12 percent in March, the government reported. |
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| Thursday, April 10KATHMANDU, Nepal, April 10 (UPI) -- International observers hailed Nepal's elections Thursday as a success despite violence that left two people dead. |
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| Wednesday, April 9KABUL, Afghanistan, April 9 (UPI) -- Taliban militants in Afghanistan reportedly killed at least 18 guards protecting a road construction crew in an ambush near the border with Pakistan. |
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| Monday, April 7KOTTE, Sri Lanka, April 7 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan air force attacked Tamil Tiger positions in the north Monday, the day after a suicide bombing killed a Cabinet minister, military officials said. |
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| Sunday, April 6COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A suicide bomber attacked the opening ceremony of a marathon outside Sri Lanka's capital Sunday, killing a government minister and 11 other people, authorities said. Dozens were wounded. |
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| Friday, April 4BUCHAREST, Romania, April 4 (UPI) -- President George Bush expects the United States will send a "significant" number of troops to Afghanistan in 2009, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 4 (UPI) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani promised Friday to restore the constitution and ensure an independent judiciary. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 4 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka said Friday that its jets bombed and destroyed a Tamil Tiger rebel training base in the northern part of the island nation. |
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| Thursday, April 3ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 3 (UPI) -- Pakistan says any direct U.S. action against militants in its violence-hit tribal areas would undermine the war against terrorism. KARACHI, Pakistan, April 3 (UPI) -- Pakistan's parliament under the constitution will decide the future of President Pervez Musharraf, the new speaker of the national assembly says. |
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| Wednesday, April 2BUCHAREST, Romania, April 2 (UPI) -- NATO leaders likely will approve deployment of more troops to Afghanistan, the military alliance leader said Wednesday in Bucharest, Romania. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 2 (UPI) -- Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan, who passed nuclear secrets to North Korea, Libya and Iran, has claimed he is being illegally detained in his home. |
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| Tuesday, April 1PARIS, April 1 (UPI) -- France may increase its forces in Afghanistan if other NATO countries also send more troops, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon told Parliament. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 1 (UPI) -- The new 24-member Pakistani Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gillani, is made up of mostly members of the country's two main parties. |
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| Monday, March 31MEYMANEH, Afghanistan, March 31 (UPI) -- Three rockets targeted a Norwegian military base in northern Afghanistan early Monday, prompting the evacuation of the base, military officials said. |
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| Thursday, March 27ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 27 (UPI) -- About 40 people were reported dead Thursday in two days of sectarian fighting in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- U.S. airstrikes targeting al-Qaida in Pakistan have increased because commanders fear the new government may ban some U.S. military operations, a report said. NEW YORK, March 27 (UPI) -- A fledgling company identified as the main supplier of munitions for Afghanistan has been suspended from U.S. government contracting. |
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| Wednesday, March 26COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 26 (UPI) -- A landmine detonated in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, killing two police officers and injuring four others, the military said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 26 (UPI) -- Nawaz Sharif, a key figure in Pakistan's new coalition government, says the country should not become a killing field while fighting extremism. |
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| Monday, March 24
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's state-run news agency is KATHMANDU, Nepal, March 24 (UPI) -- The number of the endangered one-horned rhinoceros in the animal's Royal Chitwan National Park habitat in Nepal has gone up by 36 to 408, a new census showed. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 23 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan troops killed 48 rebel fighters in its separatist territory, a report said Sunday. |
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| Sunday, March 23KABUL, Afghanistan, March 23 (UPI) -- Heavy bloodshed was reported in Afghanistan Sunday, with NATO forces claiming to have killed many Taliban insurgents and two NATO troops killed. |
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| Saturday, March 22KABUL, Afghanistan, March 22 (UPI) -- A 19-year-old singer is this year's winner of "Afghan Star," the pop music TV competition akin to the United States' "American Idol." KABUL, Afghanistan, March 22 (UPI) -- British special forces reportedly killed an alleged drug trafficker and his 6-year-old son in new military efforts aimed at drug lords in southern Afghanistan. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 22 (UPI) -- Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the renowned British science-fiction guru, was buried in a secular funeral Saturday in Colombo, Sri Lanka. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 22 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military combed the waters off the northeast coast Saturday for 10 sailors missing after their patrol boat exploded and sank, the navy said. |
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| Friday, March 21ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 21 (UPI) -- A suicide bomb attack killed five Pakistani soldiers in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan, where U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting. |
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| Thursday, March 20BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, March 20 (UPI) -- Afghanistan is making history and U.S. troops stationed there deserve much of the credit, Vice President Dick Cheney said during a visit to Bagram Air Base. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney restated a U.S. commitment to Afghanistan Thursday and said he envisioned that country enjoying peace and freedom. KATHMANDU, Nepal, March 20 (UPI) -- The European Union and the United Nations have condemned the killing of a left party candidate in Nepal weeks before elections are to be held in the country. |
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| Wednesday, March 19KABUL, Afghanistan, March 19 (UPI) -- A woman and child were killed Wednesday by coalition forces engaged in a firefight with enemy militants in Afghanistan, military officials said. |
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| Tuesday, March 18ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 18 (UPI) -- A 51-year-old medical school graduate, who is also a businesswoman, is expected to become the first woman speaker of Pakistan's national assembly. |
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| Monday, March 17LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, March 17 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber smashed his vehicle into a military convoy in Afghanistan Monday killing four soldiers and wounding several others, Afghan officials said. |
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| Sunday, March 16ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 16 (UPI) -- A Taliban leader in Pakistan's tribal area reportedly is ready for a cease-fire if the new coalition government stops supporting President Pervez Musharraf. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - At least 16 people have been killed in a missile strike near the border with Afghanistan that destroyed the house of a suspected militant leader, Pakistani state television said Sunday. |
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| Saturday, March 15KATHMANDU, Nepal, March 15 (UPI) -- Acting on a request from China, which is facing Tibetan protests, Nepal reportedly will close its Everest route during the Olympic Torch relay to the summit. |
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| Friday, March 14OTTAWA, March 14 (UPI) -- Canada's Parliament voted to extend its combat mission in Afghanistan into 2011 but only if NATO comes through with 1,000 reinforcements and aircraft. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 14 (UPI) -- Asif Ali Zardari, husband of slain Benazir Bhutto whose party will lead Pakistan's coalition government, Friday was cleared of the last remaining graft charge. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 14 (UPI) -- A media freedom group has condemned the arrest by Sri Lankan police of five Tamil journalists, saying some of the journalists were beaten. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 14 (UPI) -- The two main Pakistani parties set to form a coalition government have reportedly reached a deal on power sharing. |
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| Wednesday, March 12KATHMANDU, Nepal, March 12 (UPI) -- Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala says he will retire from politics after the April 10 constituent assembly elections. |
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| Tuesday, March 11ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 11 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf may not have to reinstate judges deposed by his regime when the new government takes over. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 11 (UPI) -- Powerful explosions Tuesday rocked Lahore, killing at least 22 people in the second such major attack this month in Pakistan's second largest city. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 11 (UPI) -- Besides rising violence in the country, the new coalition government in Pakistan also must tackle the problem of skyrocketing prices of basic consumer goods. |
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| Monday, March 10ANKARA, Turkey, March 10 (UPI) -- The head of Turkey's military told a conference in Ankara that cozying up to the Taliban could backfire for Pakistani opposition political parties. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 10 (UPI) -- Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan, who passed nuclear secrets to North Korea, Libya and Iran, has been discharged from a hospital where he was taken last week. BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka, March 10 (UPI) -- Election observers predicted a huge voter turnout Monday amid high security in the first municipal elections in the Sri Lankan city of Batticaloa in 14 years. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 10 (UPI) -- A top leader of Pakistan People's Party Monday vowed to work for party unity, easing speculation about a rift with the party co-chairman. |
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| Sunday, March 9ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 9 (UPI) -- Pakistan is set to have a coalition government following an agreement between the leaders of the country's two former opposition political parties. |
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| Saturday, March 8HERAT, Afghanistan, March 8 (UPI) -- Thousands of Muslims in Afghanistan Saturday protested the reprinting of a political cartoon that sparked riots when initially published in Denmark. |
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| Friday, March 7COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 7 (UPI) -- Thirty-eight Tamil Tiger rebels and four Sri Lankan government soldiers were killed during fighting in the country's northern region, a report said. BRUSSELS, March 7 (UPI) -- France's foreign minister indicated his country is responding to Canada's appeal for 1,000 troops in the NATO mission in Afghanistan. |
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| Thursday, March 6COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 6 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan officials seized a supply of high-tech devices while it was being taken to rebels in a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam-held area. NEW YORK, March 6 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan government forces were accused Thursday of causing a national crisis through widespread abductions and "disappearances." |
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| Tuesday, March 4ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 4 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown reportedly wants Pakistan to return to the Commonwealth group of nations from which it was suspended in November. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 4 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government will not let up on its fight against extremism and terrorism despite recent bombings that killed dozens, a spokesman said. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 4 (UPI) -- Two suicide bombers set off explosive vests Tuesday at the Pakistani Naval War College in Lahore, killing at least seven people. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 3 (UPI) -- Britain is joining the United States in sending instructors to train the Pakistani military in counter-insurgency operations, the BBC reported. |
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| Monday, March 3ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 3 (UPI) -- The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff visited Pakistan Tuesday to offer help in the fight against terrorists and domestic militants in tribal areas. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 3 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan navy Monday reported finding a wooden trawler that had been adrift 12 days in the Bay of Bengal, with 71 survivors and 20 dead aboard. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 3 (UPI) -- A roadside bombing in Afghanistan killed a Canadian soldier just days away from the end of his six-month tour of duty, military officials said. |
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| Sunday, March 2LAHORE, Pakistan, March 2 (UPI) -- A Pakistan People's Party prime ministerial candidate suggested Sunday his party could work with President Pervez Musharraf, Dawn reported. VAUNIYA, Sri Lanka, March 2 (UPI) -- Fighting in Sri Lanka left at least 25 people dead Sunday as the military and Tiger rebels clashed, military officials said. WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. military may soon send nearly 100 trainers to Pakistan to help train the country's paramilitary forces for combat, military officials say. |
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| Saturday, March 1LAHORE, Pakistan, March 1 (UPI) -- Shahbaz Sharif, a Pakistani opposition leader and brother of a former prime minister, has been acquitted in the deaths of five youths, a published report said. |
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| Friday, February 29KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- The Canadian military in Afghanistan has resumed handing over prisoners to Afghan authorities, apparently satisfied detainees won't be tortured, officers said. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- A coalition of ethnic parties in Nepal agreed Thursday to participate in upcoming elections. |
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| Thursday, February 28ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Pervez Musharraf, threatened with impeachment by the opposition, plans to complete his term as president of Pakistan, a close associate said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A missile struck a house in a remote part of Pakistan, killing at least eight suspected militants and injuring three others, intelligence officials said. |
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| Tuesday, February 26ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said he plans to run in the by-elections that would fill vacant Parliament seats from the general elections. |
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| Monday, February 25COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Skirmishes between Sri Lankan solders and Tamil Tigers in the Mannar and Vavuniya districts killed 26 rebels and five soldiers, military officials said Monday. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- A suicide bombing in Rawalpindi Monday killed at least three people, including the Pakistani army's top surgeon, government officials said. |
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| Sunday, February 24ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A top official in Pervez Musharraf's party says the Pakistani president has a "bunker mentality" since the parliamentary election went against his party. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Security checkpoints were set up around Colombo Sunday after a bombing occurred just outside the Sri Lankan capital. |
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| Saturday, February 23ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A top official in Pervez Musharraf's party says the Pakistani president has a "bunker mentality" since the parliamentary election went against the party. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Nepal's Seven Party Alliance decided Saturday that the Nepali region of Madhes would not be granted the status of an autonomous state. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A Tamil Tiger rebel camp was targeted by the Sri Lankan military Saturday, resulting in 51 deaths, as violence in the Asian country intensified. LAHORE, Pakistan, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- The head of the Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association said Saturday a "long march" will occur if several deposed judges are not reinstated soon. KABUL, Afghanistan - Seven Afghan security guards died Saturday when their car hit a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, while a gunman killed a district police chief in the region, police said. |
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| Friday, February 22ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Pakistan's victorious opposition parties say their coalition government will leave the issue of the ousted judiciary to be determined by the new Parliament. NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- United States officials reportedly have reached a quiet agreement with Pakistani leadership to step up secret air strikes against suspected terrorists. OTTAWA, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper proposed to parliament in Ottawa Canadian troops end their NATO mission by 2011. |
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| Thursday, February 21WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Pakistan's impending government change means closer scrutiny of how millions in U.S. aid to the country's military is spent, it was reported Thursday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Leaders of the two parties that won the most seats in Pakistan's parliamentary elections agreed Thursday to create a coalition government, it was reported.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan and NATO-led troops killed two regional Taliban commanders in southern Afghanistan, and an explosion in the same province claimed the life of a British soldier, officials said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, February 20ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, said Wednesday he is not running for prime minister. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- President Pervez Musharraf, whose party lost in Monday's parliamentary elections in Pakistan, says he will stay in office to aid the democratic transition. ACCRA, Ghana, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Parliamentary elections in Pakistan were fair, and U.S. President George Bush said Wednesday the countries still share interests in battling terrorists. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The governor of Kandahar blamed Canadian soldiers for a deadly suicide bombing in Afghanistan, saying they ignored his warning of a bomber. |
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| Tuesday, February 19WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. officials hope Pakistan's new government will "work with us as partners in counter terrorism," a White House spokeswoman said Tuesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Leaders of the two Pakistani parties winning the most seats in National Assembly polls said Tuesday they were ready to discuss forming a coalition government. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A spokesman for Pervez Musharraf Tuesday rejected any demand for the resignation of the Pakistani president in the wake of his party's rout in elections. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's ruling party was headed toward a big defeat Tuesday in parliamentary elections. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The Pakistan election commission Tuesday reported voter turnout for 147 of the 272 parliamentary seats contested was 44.91 percent. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The party of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf accepted defeat Tuesday as election results indicated opposition parties gained control of Parliament. |
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| Monday, February 18ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, praising parliamentary elections held Monday, said the polls must pave the way for a policy of reconciliation.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide car bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed 37 civilians at a busy market in southern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of Pakistan People's Party, predicted a big win for his party in the Pakistani parliamentary polls which closed Monday. SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- An explosion Monday in southern Afghanistan killed at least 35 people and injured 20 others, including three NATO soldiers, a police official said. |
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| Sunday, February 17KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bombing at an outdoor dog |
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| Saturday, February 16DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The charity Oxfam warns more than 1.3 million people in Bangladesh will be at risk during the impending monsoon rains due to housing limitations. |
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| Friday, February 15ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A retired Pakistani intelligence official says the agencies have rigged next week's polls to favor President Pervez Musharraf, a report said Friday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Analysts say Pakistani army chief Ashfaq Kayani's orders to withdraw officers from civilian posts will help improve the military's image. |
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| Thursday, February 14ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf Thursday warned against violence in Monday's elections and urged against pre-judging the poll results. |
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| Wednesday, February 13ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Pakistan Wednesday announced the test firing of a short-range, nuclear-capable Ghaznavi-Hatf III ballistic missile. |
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| Tuesday, February 12COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan officials Tuesday accused Tamil Tiger rebels of shelling a military base near a church, with six soldiers among those killed. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Pakistani troops reportedly will be on duty throughout the country to ensure the security of parliamentary polls scheduled for Monday. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Dawa Steven Sherpa already has climbed Mount Everest in Nepal but the 23-year-old wants to do it again to draw attention to the dangers of global warming. |
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| Monday, February 11ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Pakistan's election commission under the Musharraf regime cannot be expected to be impartial in elections set for next week, the Human Right Watch warned. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military Monday claimed its security forces had killed at least 80 Tamil Tiger rebels in weekend clashes in the northern region. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- A roadside bomb explosion Monday in Afghanistan barely missed a Canadian convoy of vehicles but disrupted a meeting of village elders and coalition forces. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Lukla, the airstrip near the foot of Mount Everest, is to be named after the first conquerors of the world's tallest peak in Nepal's Himalayan range. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber set off his device Monday at an election rally in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, killing eight people and injuring 11 others. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- A leading Taliban operative in Pakistan was captured Monday after being wounded by Pakistani forces in Baluchistan province, military officials said. |
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| Sunday, February 10KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The United States has reportedly asked Turkey to send combat troops to fight Taliban and al-Qaida militants in Afghanistan. |
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| Saturday, February 9KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Germany plans to increase the number of troops it has stationed in Afghanistan from 1,000 to 4,500, it was reported Saturday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Pakistan authorities say a bomb killed 14 people Saturday at an election rally in an area frequented by Taliban militants near the Afghan border. |
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| Friday, February 8ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The detention of independent Pakistani judges will seriously affect the credibility of this month's national elections, Human Rights Watch warned Friday. OTTAWA, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Canada's government asked Parliament Friday to extend the country's Afghanistan combat mission indefinitely if other NATO nations send 1,000 more troops. PARIS, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- France relieved NATO tensions by agreeing to send troops to aid Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, a report said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A once-in-50-years rat infestation predicted in local folklore has struck Bangladesh this year, decimating the crops of tens of thousands of people. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government said it arrested two more suspects in the investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto died from hitting her head after a bomb blast and not from a gunshot wound, a Scotland Yard team concluded. TORONTO, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- France has responded to Canada's plea for more NATO combat troops in Afghanistan at a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Lithuania, Canadian media reported. |
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| Wednesday, February 6ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Pakistan has issued more than 500 visas to foreigners to observe the Feb. 18 parliamentary elections, the state-owned news agency reported Wednesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A Pakistani major general and seven other military personnel died Wednesday in the crash of their helicopter in tribal South Waziristan. |
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| Monday, February 4KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's government bristled Monday over allegedly secret British plans to set up camps to train anti-Taliban militias. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Pakistani troops reportedly destroyed several torture cells in the tribal regions where they are fighting escalating militant violence. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber in Pakistan Monday rammed his explosives-laden motorcycle into a bus in the violence-hit garrison city of Rawalpindi, killing several people. |
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| Sunday, February 3ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A suicide bomber on a motorbike rammed into a minibus carrying security personnel, detonating a blast Monday that killed at least six people in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, police said. |
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| Saturday, February 2OTTAWA, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Canada's top military officer has criticized a proposal to end all of his country's combat efforts in Afghanistan by February 2009. BERLIN, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The secretary-general of NATO urged German officials Saturday to deploy troops into the troubled southern portion of Afghanistan. |
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| Friday, February 1BERLIN, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Germany will not send more soldiers or allow its troops to be deployed in southern Afghanistan, Defense Minister Franz-Josef Jung said Friday. |
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| Wednesday, January 30DHAKA, Bangladesh, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The trial of former Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina, accused of corruption by the military-backed emergency government, opened Wednesday in Dhaka. |
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| Monday, January 28ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met in Paris last week, the Pakistan Foreign Office confirmed Monday. WASHINGTON - In a shift with profound implications, the Bush administration is attempting to re-energize its terrorism-fighting war efforts in Afghanistan, the original target of a post-Sept. 11 offensive. The U.S. also is refocusing on Pakistan, where a regenerating al-Qaida is posing fresh threats. |
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| Sunday, January 27ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Top U.S. intelligence chiefs met with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to lobby for increased CIA autonomy in alleged al-Qaida territories, officials said. |
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| Friday, January 25ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Pakistan Friday test-fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile reportedly able to hit targets in India, which along with Pakistan possesses nuclear weapons. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Pakistan military forces killed up to 30 pro-Taliban fighters in an area from where militants seized four ammunition trucks a day earlier, a report said. |
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| Wednesday, January 23WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Military and political progress in eastern Afghanistan is being made, but challenges remain, U.S. Army Maj. Gen. David Rodriguez said Wednesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The Taliban militant blamed for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto reportedly has warned the Pakistani military to end operations in tribal areas. |
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| Tuesday, January 22ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military Tuesday claimed its security forces killed 37 militants in clashes in the South Waziristan tribal area. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said Tuesday he is against a military solution to the decades-long Tamil ethnic conflict on the island nation. OTTAWA, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Canada must emphasize diplomacy and reconstruction in Afghanistan, and its military must move from combat to training Afghan forces, a panel recommended. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan government Tuesday claimed its forces destroyed 24 Tamil Tiger bunkers in separate clashes in the northern region, killing 15 rebels. |
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| Sunday, January 20KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Leaders of the Seven-Party Alliance said Saturday the upcoming elections for a constituent assembly will be the end of the Nepalese monarchy. |
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| Thursday, January 17COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Separatist Tamil Tigers denied reports Thursday a Sri Lankan airstrike destroyed one of their bases in the north, local media reported. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Taliban militants who overran a northwestern Pakistani military outpost Thursday abandoned it hours later, an army spokesman said. |
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| Wednesday, January 16KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Nepalese conservationists, alarmed by the near extinction of vulture population in the Himalayan kingdom, said they plan to breed the birds in captivity. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's Culture Ministry has reportedly banned the release of "The Kite Runner," a controversial film set in the country. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A Pakistani paramilitary fort in the tribal area was reportedly captured by hundreds of militants after a fierce fight that left several people dead. |
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| Tuesday, January 15GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka's U.N. mission in Switzerland Tuesday rejected as gratuitous a U.N. warning against its proposed withdrawal from the 2002 cease-fire.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban said Tuesday that its suicide bombers would attack restaurants where Westerners eat in Kabul, an ominous new threat that forced American and European workers to restrict outings in the Afghan capital. |
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| Monday, January 14ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Pakistani troops killed 23 suspected militants in clashes in the northwest region of the country, GEO TV reported Monday. KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Some politicians and former judges in Pakistan see the assassination of Benazir Bhutto as a national security threat, a report said Monday. |
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| Sunday, January 13GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Police operating in the eastern and southern provinces of Afghanistan are being hindered in their efforts by a lack of supplies and overall poor conditions. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- President Pervez Musharraf said the United States would "regret the day" its forces entered the Pakistani mountains in search of Osama bin Laden. |
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| Saturday, January 12COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Fifty-nine Tamil Tiger insurgents and one Sri Lankan soldier have been killed in a new outbreak of violence in Sri Lanka, military officials said. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- New Zealand adventurer Sir Edmund Hillary wanted the site of his greatest conquest, Mount Everest, protected from climate change, it was reported Saturday. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- The Nepalese government has set April 10 as the official date for a key national election that has been twice delayed over political disagreements. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- A top U.S. military leader says Pakistan must act quickly to reduce al-Qaida's growing influence in that country and elsewhere in the world. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf says his country can investigate the assassination of Benazir Bhutto without help from the United Nations. |
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| Friday, January 11WASHNGTON, D.C., Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The political party allied with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf would be willing to form a coalition after the elections, a government official said. |
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| Thursday, January 10KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The Afghan government says any addition of U.S. troops in the country would help its own forces in strengthening security. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman said he had been assured by Pakistani officials that the country's nuclear weapons were safe from falling into extremists' hands. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has assured a European election observer team the Feb. 18 parliamentary elections would be free and fair, it was reported. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Three more British experts have arrived in Rawalpindi to join the team assisting Pakistani authorities in the investigation of Benazir Bhutto's assassination. |
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| Wednesday, January 9NANGAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- An ex-Marine testified at Camp Lejeune, N.C., that Marines shot civilians after a 2007 car bomb attack on their convoy in Afghanistan's Nangahar Province. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military said Wednesday its forces captured a Tamil Tiger-held territory after clashes in which 19 rebels were killed. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Pakistan, rejecting reported comments by the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, said Wednesday its nuclear arsenal is fully secure. |
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| Tuesday, January 8KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan killed two soldiers in the U.S.-led coalition as they responded to a police call for help, the military said Tuesday. |
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| Monday, January 7LAHORE, Pakistan, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Former Premier Nawaz Sharif Monday asked President Pervez Musharraf to resign, blaming him for Pakistan being labeled a "dangerous country," reports said. |
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| Thursday, January 3COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan government Thursday claimed its army destroyed six Tamil Tiger bunkers in Mannar in the north, killing at least six rebels. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- At least seven people died and 12 others were wounded in twin blasts affecting a road construction workers' convoy in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The party of slain Benazir Bhutto will take part in Pakistan's delayed elections, her husband announced Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, January 2KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Pakistan's Skies Unlimited Films reportedly plans to make a big-screen bio-pic about Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani leader assassinated last week. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Bangladeshi police said detained former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina cannot be sent abroad for medical treatment under the jail code. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Pakistan's main political parties said they weren't formally consulted before the country's election commission decided to postpone this month's elections. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Pakistan's national parliamentary elections, set for next Tuesday, have been postponed until Feb. 18 in the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had written allegations of planned government vote-rigging when she was assassinated, CNN reported Wednesday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- At least five people were killed and 23 injured Wednesday in a bombing aimed at a bus carrying injured Sri Lankan soldiers to a Colombo hospital. |
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| Tuesday, January 1ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Pakistan's official declaration that Benazir Bhutto died of skull fracture seemed to change Tuesday as a videotape showed she may have been struck by bullets. |
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| Monday, December 31ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Nawaz Sharif, who was ousted as Pakistan premier in 1999 by Pervez Musharraf, said Monday the president should resign immediately. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A videotape released Monday shows former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto being struck by a bullet seconds before an explosion in Rawalpindi. |
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| Sunday, December 30COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa suggested an air strike may have wounded or killed Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Pakistan's newspapers used editorial pages Sunday to blast the government's handling of Benazir Bhutto's death. LARKANA, Pakistan, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The husband and teenage son of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will keep her Pakistan People's Party going beyond her death. LARKANA, Pakistan, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The family of late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto Sunday urged her followers to continue her struggle for democracy. |
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| Saturday, December 29BERLIN, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Germany's foreign minister has expressed concern about Pakistan's nuclear weapons following the turmoil in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush has talked with foreign policy officials about the emerging crisis in Pakistan following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- President Pervez Musharraf's office says it will confer with all of Pakistan's major political parties before deciding whether to hold elections Jan. 8. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Pakistani special forces were ordered to shoot rioters as violence continued Saturday after the funeral of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. |
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| Friday, December 28ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will make the task of picking a successor to lead her political party quite difficult. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- An explosion Friday at an election rally in Pakistan's violence-hit Swat Valley killed nine people including a relative of a political leader, a report said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Violent protests in Pakistan sparked by the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto have claimed several lives and caused much damage. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Benazir Bhutto reportedly wrote a U.S. friend Oct. 26 Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf would be partly to blame if she was killed, which occurred Thursday. |
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| Thursday, December 27RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who ended a long self-imposed exile in October, died Thursday of gunshot wounds following a political rally. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Special Forces are expected to expand their presence in Pakistan to train anti-terror units there starting next year, a Washington Post column said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, reacting to the killing of Benazir Bhutto, said Thursday his party would boycott elections Jan. 8, BBC reported. SRI JAYAWARDENAPURA-KOTTE, Sri Lanka, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military announced Thursday that it destroyed a rebel Tamil Tiger naval base in the northern part of the country. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Supporters of opposition party politician Nawaz Sharif waged a gunbattle Thursday afternoon with backers of a pro-government party outside the capital, police officials said. |
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| Wednesday, December 26ISLAMABAD, Afghanistan, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed Wednesday to share more intelligence about militants and tighten border security. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Police in southwestern Nepal said about 200 people were missing after a bridge over the Bheri River collapsed. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Diplomats are scrambling to prevent the Afghan government from expelling two international officials for holding talks with members of the Taliban. |
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| Monday, December 24ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Billions of dollars of U.S. funding to Pakistan reportedly have been wasted instead of going to fight al-Qaida and Taliban terrorism. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A suicide bomb attack killed 10 people, four of them soldiers, in the Swat valley, where Pakistani forces have been fighting pro-Taliban rebels for weeks. |
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| Saturday, December 22KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged his country's military support against terrorism during a surprise visit to Afghanistan Saturday. |
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| Thursday, December 20WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Polish troops serving as part of the NATO peacekeeping force in Afghanistan won't get new armored personnel carriers as scheduled. |
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| Wednesday, December 19ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The Human Rights Watch said Wednesday free and fair elections in Pakistan are not possible so long as judges and lawyers remain under detention. |
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| Tuesday, December 18ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- An alliance of Pakistan opposition parties is urging voters to boycott upcoming elections to press its demand for the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Pakistan election commission has refused to review the ban on former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from running in the Jan. 8 elections. |
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| Monday, December 17ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A suicide bombing attack Monday in Pakistan, the latest in the continuing violence against security forces, killed nine army recruits. |
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KABUL, Afghanistan - A roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan killed two Afghan civilians and wounded five others Sunday, while a clash in the south left four Taliban dead, officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Violence persisted Saturday in northern Sri Lanka, with the army reporting that soldiers had killed at least 28 Tamil Tiger militant fighters. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf promised fair elections Saturday, saying foreign groups would be invited to observe the voting. |
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| Saturday, December 15ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf Saturday lifted his six-week-old emergency rule and later told the nation next month's elections would be free and fair. CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Australia will not increase the size of its contingent in Afghanistan until other countries do, the defense minister said after meeting with his counterparts. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Health officials in Pakistan have confirmed that five people have been infected by bird flu. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Benazir Bhutto said an explosion that marked her October homecoming in Pakistan came from a bomb rigged to a small child presented to her for an embrace. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A suicide bombing attack Saturday near an army supply center in Pakistan killed seven people including two security officials, GEO TV reported. |
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| Friday, December 14ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has taken control of the National Command Authority which guards the country's nuclear weapons. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A group of former Pakistani Foreign Ministry officials said that President Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule has "dangerously destabilized the country." QUETTA, Pakistan, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Two suicide bombers struck a military checkpoint in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, killing at least seven people. |
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| Thursday, December 13ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Two-thirds of Pakistanis polled said they wanted President Pervez Musharraf to quit and slightly more dislike his political party in the upcoming election. |
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| Wednesday, December 12COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Violence between the Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan soldiers took the lives of 49 members of the separatist group Wednesday, the government said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. forces penetrating areas in Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban are struggling to treat children deprived of basic medical care, a report says. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A Pakistani political analyst said there is no question next month's parliamentary elections will be rigged in favor of President Pervez Musharraf. LONDON - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that Taliban fighters in Afghanistan can win a role in the country's future if they renounce violence, and he pledged a long-term British troop presence. |
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| Tuesday, December 11KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- NATO claimed victory Tuesday in the four-day battle for Musa Qala as the Afghanistan flag was raised over what had been the only town held by the Taliban. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf called for free and fair elections Tuesday as one of his opponents called for officials to ignore Musharraf's orders. |
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| Monday, December 10KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ended up close to a war zone Monday when he paid a surprise visit to his country's troops in Afghanistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A second leader of a major Pakistani political party announced the group won't boycott January parliamentary elections in Islamabad. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Five children and two adults were injured Monday by a suicide bomber targeting a military truck carrying schoolchildren in northwestern Pakistan. |
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| Sunday, December 9KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- An attack by British and Afghan troops on the Taliban-controlled town of Musa Qala in Afghanistan has led to the capture of two Taliban commanders. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The general elections set to take place in Pakistan next month will be contested by Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The imposed state of emergency in Pakistan will be lifted a day earlier than originally planned this month, President Pervez Musharra |
