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Pakistan Prime Minister-elect Nawaz Sharif said an offer of peace talks from the country’s Taliban insurgents should be taken seriously to end militant violence that has ravaged the country for more than a decade.
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A bomb attack at an election rally killed at least nine people in Pakistan yesterday, as violence against political activists escalated ahead of the country’s parliamentary ballot next month.
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Pakistan’s government denied media reports that it is holding peace talks with the country’s Taliban militants, even as an unidentified commander of the movement was cited as saying a truce has been declared.
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Mohammad Shakir Afridi has watched U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan since the first Americans landed in the country 10 years ago. As president of the Khyber Transport Association, one of the largest groups of truck owners in Pakistan, Afridi’s biggest contract involves moving military equipment for American and coalition forces through Pakistan to military bases in Afghanistan. The slightest policy shift in Washington can carry consequences for Afridi and his business.
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New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said there is no evidence to suggest the Pakistani Taliban movement was behind a bombing attempt in Times Square yesterday.
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Pakistan’s Taliban insurgents and the country’s top security official have set conditions for peace talks in comments that may be aimed primarily at influencing a general election due by May.
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Taliban factions in Pakistan have agreed to end attacks that risk killing civilians and stop kidnapping for ransom while continuing suicide strikes against security forces, The News reported, citing a militant spokesman.
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Pakistan released eight more members of Afghanistan’s Taliban movement, including former regional governors and ministers, as it bids to help create conditions for substantial negotiations with insurgents.
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Pakistan said it will release more members of Afghanistan’s Taliban movement in a bid to help the U.S. and Afghan governments start meaningful negotiations with insurgents to end a decade-old conflict.
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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf ordered an immediate and targeted security operation in the southwestern city of Quetta after a weekend bombing killed 84 members of the Shiite Muslim minority.
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