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Is the Peshawar attack a turning point for Pakistan?
Aafia Siddiqui: the Pakistani female scientist ‘on Isil’s list of demands’
Reports Isil demanded the release of a female scientist jailed for attempted murder suggest the group is trying to build support for Isil in Pakistan and Afghanistan
By Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor
12:37PM BST 21 Aug 2014 on telegraph.co.uk
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) reportedly called for the release of a female Pakistani scientist with ties to al-Qaeda in exchange for
Aafia Siddiqui and U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff
James Foley.
According to the New York Times, Isil sent through a “laundry list” of demands to the United States which included the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, an MIT-trained neuroscientist currently incarcerated in a prison in Texas.
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Taliban trouble on the horizon for Karzai, Afghanistan
by Kim Brown
WASHINGTON (VOR)— Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his entire delegation have extended their current diplomatic mission to Pakistan so as to continue discussions with that government on how best to control the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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The Taliban’s Qatar office is a positive step, but not a prologue to peace
The Taliban’s establishment of a negotiating team is welcome, but don’t expect their ‘talk and fight’ strategy to end anytime soon.
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- Michael Semple
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 19 June 2013 12.28 BST
The Afghan Taliban opened an office in Qatar on Tuesday to help restart talks on ending the 12-year-old war. Photograph: Mohammed Dabbous/Reuters
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آفاق حوار بين طالبان وواشنطن بندوة في الدوحة
ندوة “الحوار بين الولايات المتحدة وطالبان إلى أين؟” تنظم من طرف منتدى العلاقات العربية والدولية
HKS Faculty Add Perspective on the Crisis in Afghanistan
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As if the situation in Afghanistan wasn’t tenuous enough, recent events give the impression whatever U.S. goals have been reached in the country are quickly unraveling.
In late February anti-American protests proliferated throughout the war-ridden country after American personnel at Bagram Air Base inadvertently burned copies of the Koran. On March 11, a United States Army sergeant went on a shooting spree, killing at least 16 people including nine children in southern Afghanistan. Following the shootings, the Taliban threatened to retaliate. March 15, Afghan protestors demanded the accused soldier be prosecuted in Afghanistan as word spread that the American military
Expert perspective on what should Americans do for the mission going on in Afghanistan
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