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...The Taliban are also embroiled in its own counterinsurgency against the Islamic State Khorasan or Isis-K, an offshoot of the extremist group....
...William Burns, CIA director, met this week with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Taliban co-founder....
...The official added that Isis-K, a splinter group of al-Qaeda that grew into a rival of the Taliban, was “not a coherent force”, with fewer than 2,000 fighters, but “if they are left alone, a lot of people...
...The US-led invasion in 2001 scattered the Taliban, with founders such as Hassan Akhund and Abdul Ghani Baradar — now prime minister and deputy prime minister respectively — fleeing overseas....
...The degree of the international engagement was demonstrated by an unlikely visit by William Burns, the CIA director, to Kabul to meet Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar last week to discuss the evacuation...
...Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a Taliban spokesman, told the Financial Times the decision to block Afghans was taken “due to congestion created at the airport and due to security reasons”....
...With us there is only war,” said Abdul Aziz al Badri, who said he had left Baghdad after his sister was killed....
...While construction of the two power plants – known as the K-2 and K-3 – began last year, Pakistani officials revealed for the first time on Wednesday that loans for the project would be provided by state-owned...
...She knows that she must at once simplify and yet also use a broad canvas, so she blends the stories of two historical figures – Abdul Karim, Queen Victoria’s munshi or teacher concerning the India of which...
...“We are now a recognised nuclear power,” said M.K. Narayan, India’s national security adviser. “The world needs India as India needs the world....
...Andrew K. Woods is Hauser fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Law School human rights programme. ………………………....
...As long as the Pakistani civil society does not take a stand on this issue, it cannot be helped,” K. Subrahmanyam, the Delhi-based strategic affairs analyst, writes in The Times of India....
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...Abdul Kalam, a cherished, if somewhat unrepresentative, symbol of Muslim integration, in the largely ceremonial position....
...Abdul Kalam, a cherished symbol of Muslim integration, in the largely ceremonial position....
...“A lot of people have been saying that President Hu should have made a special visit,” says General Ashok K. Mehta, an Indian security analyst....
...Biggest Turnaround Joanne “J.K.” Rowling, 40 $1bn, Harry Potter Edinburgh, Scotland As J.K....
...John Wooden, who led UCLA to 10 titles in 12 years, including seven in a row, is shoulder-to-shoulder with Abdul-Jabbar and Bird....
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