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...“It is a relationship that the Pakistan army does not want to disrupt,” said Abdul Qayyum, a retired lieutenant general and former senator with new prime minister Shehbaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz...
...“Foreign policy [and] security issues inevitably bring the army to the table,” said Abdul Basit, a former Pakistani high commissioner to India....
...The Taliban is now reportedly targeting other northern cities, including Mazar-i-Sharif, the biggest in the region and base of Atta Mohammad Noor, a former governor and another northern commander....
...The northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a traditional stronghold of fierce anti-Taliban resistance, fell to the insurgent group late on Saturday night after days of heavy fighting....
...That changed last Wednesday when he flew to the northern provincial capital of Mazar-i-Sharif to rally warlords he despised to defend the city....
...They currently lie in wait close to the gates of Kandahar in the south and Mazar-i-Sharif in the north, a city where Taliban control was previously unthinkable, and there is intense fighting in Lashkar Gah...
...Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a fundamentalist old warlord, took to Facebook to pronounce the women prostitutes. Arifa, a yoga instructor, is unfazed by the fuss....
...The incident was filmed by peace activists and showed Azaria firing at the head of Abdul Fatah al-Sharif, who was lying on the ground after being shot....
...Maulana Abdul Aziz, chief cleric of the mosque, has been mired in fresh controversy after refusing to condemn the Taliban for the Peshawar carnage....
...But hopes of progress were scuttled in August when India abruptly cancelled peace talks with Pakistan, amid anger over an invitation by Abdul Basit, Pakistan’s high commissioner in New Delhi, to Kashmiri...
...One of those killed was Abu Abdul Rehman al-Maani, who is believed to have helped orchestrate the five-hour airport siege last Sunday....
...India was angered by an invitation from Abdul Basit, Pakistan’s high commissioner in New Delhi, to Kashmiri separatists for “consultations” with him before the proposed Islamabad meetings....
...Western diplomats in Islamabad expressed shock at the reported remarks of Maulana Abdul Aziz, a firebrand pro-Taliban cleric based in the Pakistani capital who was chosen by the Taliban as one of their representatives...
...The negotiators chosen by the Taliban include Maulana Abdul Aziz, a conservative cleric from Islamabad’s Red Mosque....
...“I am here to obey the edict for jihad against Isis,” says 20-year-old Najm Abdul-Sharif. “I will fight anywhere they ask me.” Capt Tareq admits to unease about sending such raw recruits into combat....
...On September 12 2001, Abdul Rashid went to the house of a Kabul friend whose living room had become popular among the neighbours for the rare presence of a satellite television....
...Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif hailed the project as “a big source of electricity supply” during a media briefing on the economy at his office in Islamabad....
...Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, former deputy leader of the Afghan Taliban, a former Afghan defence minister and the most senior official from the group held by Pakistan, was freed on Saturday....
...Hamid and Nawaz Sharif, prime minister of Pakistan....
...Mohammed Sharif contributed to this report By agreement with the Washington Post...
...One fighter was shot in the leg, said Abdul-Salaam Abdul-Agha, one of the gunmen guarding the hospital....
...“Abdul Ghani was able to streamline control of assets and provide considerably more funding to insurgent fighters,” Nato forces said in a statement....
...In envisioning the mosque’s new metamorphosis as a house of prayer and cultural centre, American-born developer Sharif El-Gamal and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a naturalised American, have a grand vision for...
...Those charged from Cardiff were Gurukanth Desai, 28, Omar Sharif Latif, 26, and Abdul Malik Miah, 24....
..., Sharif Gamal, to build a 13-floor Islamic centre with a prayer space, three blocks from Ground Zero....
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