Category: South East Asia

The Real Winners of the Afghan Election: The Taliban

Of the country’s 9.6 million registered voters (among a total population of 37 million), a total of just 1.82 million votes were counted. Of these, Mr Ghani achieved his victory by winning a paltry 923,592 votes, which can hardly be described as a commanding mandate.

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Hafiz Saeed: Will Pakistan’s ‘terror cleric’ stay in jail?

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced hardline Islamist cleric Hafiz Mohammad Saeed to 11 years in jail for financing terrorist operations.

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Taliban fighters train at Mullah Mansoor ‘Military Camp’

The Taliban has released yet another set of photographs from one of its military training camps. In the images, Taliban fighters are training in the open in a mountainous area that should be easily identified by the U.S. and Afghan militaries.

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Taliban, Afghan forces clash despite talk of breakthrough in peace deal

Afghan government forces and Taliban insurgents waged war against each other in the past 24 hours despite U.S. officials saying there had been a breakthrough in recent days in peace talks to end the 18-year-old conflict.

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Pakistani Taliban says leading ideologue and comrade killed in clash

The Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP) announced today that its senior religious authority, Khalid Haqqani, and his comrade, Saifullah Peshawari, have been killed in a clash with “American slaves.”

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Gen. Keane: Taliban commanders under orders to kill American soldiers to break our will

Taliban commanders are under specific orders to step up their attacks on American troops, Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane said Monday in response to an attack that killed two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan over the weekend.

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Ex-spokesman for Pakistan Taliban escapes

A leading member of the Pakistan Taliban has escaped custody more than two years after surrendering to authorities, said a senior security official.

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Taliban Deny Suicide Attack That Killed Six in Kabul

A suicide attack near a military academy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, left six people dead on Tuesday, the interior ministry said.

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U.S. ready to sign peace deal if Taliban abide by promise to reduce violence

The United States and the Taliban are poised to clinch a deal that would see the withdrawal of U.S. troops and the start of peace talks between the insurgents and the Afghan government. But the agreement will go ahead only if the Taliban abide by a pledge to reduce violence over a seven-day period, according to a Western official, an […]

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Suicide bombing shatters relative calm in Kabul, killing six

After months of relative calm in the Afghan capital, a suicide bombing Tuesday morning outside a military academy left at least six dead and 12 wounded, according to the Ministry of Interior Affairs.

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