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BY Ahmed Rashid The Daily News Sunday, December 13th 2009, 9:07 PM The Taliban 's riposte to President Barack Obama 's speech on Afghanistan posted on their Web site days after the speech, but largely ignored since by Western media leaves one gobsmacked. There is no mention of Islamic law or jihad. Instead the statement reads like a Washington left-wing think tank's critique of U.S. policy, highlighting the mistakes made by the ...

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Joe Klein offers an answer : Let's start with a fact: the Indian Embassy in Kabul has suffered major, lethal bomb attacks twice in the past two years. There is little question in the intelligence community that these attacks were staged by terrorist allies of the Pakistani Army. The Pakistanis are absolutely convinced that if the U.S. leaves Afghanistan, India will jump in, supporting the non-Pashtun elements in the country--indeed, India was ...

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. is stepping up pressure on Pakistan to widen the scope of an offensive against the Taliban in its tribal areas, fearful the current operation's limits could blunt the impact of the fresh American troops   Mbt       being dispatched to neighboring Afghanistan. For the past two months, Pakistan's military has been driving against Taliban hideouts in the tribal area of South Waziristan in what U.S. officials describe ...

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