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UPI - Fri Nov 20, 10:33 am ET
KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The war against the Taliban is winnable and the fight against corruption in Afghanistan's government will be waged, Afghan Interior Minister Hanif Atmar says.
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Washington Post - Sat Nov 21, 12:00 am ET
CAMP ATTERBURY, IND. -- Outside a scruffy, two-story building, armed and flak-jacketed U.S. soldiers stood watch under a sagging Afghan flag. Inside, the provincial governor, a Hamid Karzai look-alike in a striped robe and Karakul cap, pleaded with two tribal elders to get along. Only the Taliban...
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INDOlink - Fri Nov 20, 8:47 pm ET
Islamabad, Nov 20 (PTI) Pakistan today dismissed a report that Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar had fled from Quetta to Karachi with the help of ISI to avoid the possibility of being targeted by US drones.
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The Huffington Post - Fri Nov 20, 4:13 pm ET
After years of propping up corrupt and ineffective governments in South Vietnam, the U.S. finally decided to enter into peace talks with the North Vietnamese. The same should happen with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 5:12 pm ET
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani government has some advice the Obama administration may not want to hear as it contemplates sending additional U.S. troops to neighboring Afghanistan: Negotiate with Taliban leaders and restrain India.
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AP via Yahoo! News - 8 minutes ago
Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 21 minutes ago
A bomb exploded near the building of a non-government organisation offering treatment to the blind in northwest Peshawar city on Saturday, injuring one person, police said.
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The Washington Times - Fri Nov 20, 6:29 am ET
Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and found refuge from potential U.S. attacks in the teeming Pakistani port city of Karachi with the assistance of Pakistan's intelligence service, three current and former U.S. intelligence officials said. Mullah Omar, who hosted Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders ...
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CNN - Fri Nov 20, 2:39 am ET
The war in Afghanistan is winnable, and corruption will be fought, Interior Minister Hanif Atmar told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Thursday, as President Hamid Karzai was being sworn in for a second five-year term in Kabul.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 12:27 am ET
The Afghan government would quickly be overthrown if NATO troops pulled out of the country now, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Friday.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 12:08 am ET
An explosion struck the office of an aid organization in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, wounding a security guard, police said.
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Bloomberg via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 12:01 am ET
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Washington Post - Sat Nov 21, 12:00 am ET
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AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 11:36 pm ET
A security guard has been wounded in an explosion outside the office of a non-governmental organization in the main city in northwestern Pakistan.
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USA Today - Fri Nov 20, 1:15 am ET
The U.S. military says the majority of the 700 detainees at its biggest prison in Afghanistan could eventually be released.