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India's PM Singh says assured by U.S. on Pakistan...Islamic militancy. India wants Pakistan to crack down on militants operating in disputed Kashmir, while the United States wants it to root out Taliban fighters to help end an insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan. BOTH SIDES COURT... In this article: Manmohan Singh, India, United States, Barack Obama, Pakistan, China, Islamic, Thomson Reuters, Washington, and Islamabad |
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
Fareed Zakaria on nurturing a relationship with India
..."a regime to our liking" in Kabul. Last year a Pakistani general told the director of national intelligence that Pakistan had to support the Taliban in Afghanistan, "otherwise India will reign." Having created the Afghan Taliban,...
In this article: India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Fareed Zakaria, Washington, Democracy, and Stanley McChrystal
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BBC News | November 03, 2009
India denies assisting militants
...and medical equipment" from Sherwangi, a key militant base. Interior Minister Rehman Malik had also recently alleged that India was supplying arms to the Taliban. SM Krishna has denied both the charges. "We have absolutely nothing...
In this article: Pakistan, India, Pakistani army, Suicide, and Al-Qaeda
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Reuters | 9 hours ago
Pakistan court charges Mumbai attack suspects
...including LeT. Washington wants relations between the uneasy, nuclear-armed neighbors to improve so its crucial ally Pakistan can focus on fighting Taliban militants, as well as helping in the war in Afghanistan. LASHKAR'S REACH LeT...
In this article: Pakistan, Mumbai, LeT, Thomson Reuters, Chicago, Islamabad, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Small business
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Pakistan charges 7 suspects in Mumbai attacks
...Singh said in Washington. Washington is pressing Islamabad to turn away from its traditional enemy India and focus more on its fight against the Taliban and other extremists along the Afghan-Pakistani border. That effort has shown recent...
In this article: Pakistan, Mumbai, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Islamabad, India, Kashmir, Al-qaida, and Manmohan Singh
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AP Online | 6 days ago
Afghan president sworn in to second 5-year term
...discussions. Afghanistan routinely accuses Pakistan of harboring the Taliban's top leadership, while Pakistan complains bitterly about the increased influence wielded by its hostile neighbor India in Afghanistan. Karzai said a...
In this article: Hamid Karzai, Asif Ali Zardari, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kabul, Narcotic, David Miliband, and Hillary Rodham Clinton
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BBC News | 1 day ago
Mardell's America
...worries Pakistan. It has been put forward as a strategic reason why some in Pakistan's intelligence service support the Taliban, as a solid counter-weight in Afghanistan to India if and when the Americans leave. The US envoy to the...
In this article: Barack Obama, Pakistan, India, White House, Afghanistan, Coconut, and Manmohan Singh
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Informed Comment | 1 day ago
4 US Troops Killed by Taliban; India Pressures US to Stay in Afghanistan
4 US Troops Killed by Taliban; India Pressures US to Stay in Afghanistan Four US troops were killed Sunday and Monday in Afghanistan in bombings or attacks. On Sunday, about 9 Afghan civilians were killed by bombings or shootings. During...
In this article: Afghanistan, US, Manmohan Singh, Barack Obama, Kabul, and Stanley McChrystal
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The Taliban (طالبان ', meaning "students"), also Taleban, is a radical Sunni Islamist movement that governed Afghanistan from 1996 until late 2001, when all of its members were removed from power by NATO forces during Operation Enduring Freedom. It has regrouped since 2004 and revived as a strong insurgency movement governing at the local level and fighting a guerrilla war against the governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
The movement is made up of members belonging to different ethnic Pashtun tribes, along with a number of volunteers from nearby Islamic countries such as Uzbeks, Tajiks, Chechens, Arabs, Punjabis and others. They operate in Afghanistan and the Frontier Tribal Areas of Pakistan, mainly around the Durand Line border.
The Taliban movement is headed by Mullah Mohammed Omar, who is still in hiding. Mullah Omar's original commanders were "a mixture of former small-unit military commanders and madrasah teachers," and the rank and file made up mostly of Afghan refugees who had studied at Islamic religious schools in Pakistan. The Taliban received valuable training, supplies and arms from the Pakistani government, particularly the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and many recruits from madrasahs for Afghan refugees in Pakistan, primarily ones established by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI).
- Name:
- Taliban
- Location:
- Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Years Active:
- September 1994
- Opponents:
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- British Armed Forces
- Military of Afghanistan
- Military of Pakistan
- Operation Enduring Freedom Allies
- ISAF (led by NATO)
- United States Armed Forces
- Alliances:
- Ideology:
- Islamic fundamentalism
- Participant In:
- the Civil war in Afghanistan, the War in Afghanistan (2001–present) and the Waziristan War
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