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By Nermeen Shaikh. Discussion of the current situation in the area, including the role of Pakistan
and the impact of the US war in Afghanistan.
http://www.asiasource.org/news/special_reports/rashid.cfm
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Pressure Builds on Anti-Terrorism Alliance
Pashtun commanders Abdul Haq and Hamid Karzai have entered southern Afghanistan from Pakistan to
raise a rebellion against the Taliban, in an attempt to balance the power of the Northern Alliance,
which is made up of mainly Tajiks and Uzbeks. Eurasianet.org.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav102401.shtml
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All of a sudden, women are in the picture
After seven years of rule, characterised by an almost complete indifference to the welfare of the
vast majority of the population, the Taliban has suddenly discovered concern for civilian victims
of US bombing raids. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/01/wtal101.xml
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Silk Road mined and blocked by rebel tribesmen
Criticisms from Pakistani officials of the continued bombardment of Afghanistan which is showing
few results, and criticisms from the US of Pakistan's inability to mobilise defectors among the
Taliban. Philip Smucker in Peshawar and Ahmed Rashid in Islamabad. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/30/wafg130.xml
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Taliban executes rebel on mission for peace
The execution of Abdul Haq close to the eastern city of Jalalabad. In Islamabad. Daily Telegraph,
UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/27/whaq27.xml
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A warm and charismatic man with little desire for power
Eulogy for the murdered Abdul Haq, whom Ahmed Rashid knew for over 20 years. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/27/whaq127.xml
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Pakistan intelligence services failing to weaken Taliban
The strategies of Pakistan's Interservices Intelligence (ISI). Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/26/war326.xml
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Former king's loyalists try to stir rebellion
Two prominent Afghan Pathan commanders have gone to southern Afghanistan to raise a rebellion
against the Taliban. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/25/wafg25.xml
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Alliance prisoners of war executed
Five men, including two Northern Alliance commanders, were publicly hanged in Mazar-i-Sharif.
Julius Strauss in Faizabad and Ahmed Rashid in Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/22/wtal22.xml
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Pakistan frustrated by lack of clear US lead
Washington's unwillingness to provide arms and money to the anti-Taliban Pathan forces in southern
Afghanistan who want to start an uprising. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/20/wpak20.xml
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Taliban leaders send families to safety
Those involved include Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, the Taliban foreign minister. In Islamabad. Daily
Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/18/war218.xml
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Top International Officials Comment on Afghanistan's Security Challenges
Ahmed Rashid's interviews with the UN Secretary General's Special Representative to Afghanistan
Lakhdar Brahimi, and Major General Sir John McColl, the head of the International Security
Assistance Force. Eurasianet.org.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/qanda/articles/eav031402.shtml
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Security concerns mount in Afghanistan as country enters critical reconstruction phase
Despite the presence of ISAF (International Security Assistance Force), more is needed for the
country's reconstruction. Eurasianet.org
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav031402.shtml
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Interview with Lakhdar Brahimi
Interview with the UN's Special Representative for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, about the results
of his six days of talks in Islamabad. EurasiaNet.org.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/qanda/articles/eav110101.shtml
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Brahimi Tour Seeks to Ease Regional Rivalries, Promote Post-Taliban Afghan Government
Report on Lakhdar Brahimis meetings with a broad range of anti-Taliban Afghan commanders, NGO
representatives and women's group leaders, aiming at building support for a new broad-based
government. EurasiaNet.org
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav110101.shtml
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Urgent need for new leaders in Kabul
"US military might and strategy is being dwarfed by the much more urgent task for the Western
alliance - to help form a new government in Kabul." Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/17/wafg17.xml&sSheet=/n....
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Talk to outsiders and you'll die, say Taliban
"The international community has virtually isolated the Taliban regime: Saudi Arabia cut off
diplomatic relations with Kabul yesterday. However, the Taliban are also trying to isolate
themselves, so that US forces do not gain defence intelligence." From Lahore. Daily Telegraph,
UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/26/wref226.xml
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news.telegraph.co.uk - Taliban in key defeat as rebels turn to ex-king
"UN, US and EU diplomats are also in Rome to persuade the former king and the United Front to
come to an agreement covering military strategy and the composition of the post-Taliban
government." From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/25/wafg25.xml
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Britain may be swamped with cheap heroin
"The world faces a new flood of Afghan heroin at throwaway prices as local drug dealers and
the Taliban rapidly dispose of their stocks because of the threat of war and the need to raise
money. Prices of opium, the raw material for heroin, have fallen by 80 per cent in the past three
weeks." From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/26/wdrug126.xml
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Islamabad lays down law on post-Taliban regime
"Pakistan's Interservices Intelligence (ISI), which until two weeks ago was backing the
Taliban, is now rapidly trying to put together a new alliance from among Taliban defectors, other
Pathan radicals and intellectuals, which would still include few members of Afghanistan's minority
ethnic groups." In Lahore.Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/28/wpak128.xml
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Pakistanis fail to win handover of bin Laden
"Although the hard core of the Taliban army is still holding together and has successfully
fought off a week-long offensive by the anti-Taliban United Front, the Taliban administration is
imploding in many parts of the country and senior officials are defecting to Pakistan." From
Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/29/wtal29.xml
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CIA tries to recruit native speakers by email
"One reason why the American military attack on bin Laden is being delayed is because the US
army does not have a single person in its ranks who speaks Pashto, the language of the
Taliban." From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/29/wcia29.xml
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'Optimistic' talks with former king
"Delicate negotiations on a post-Taliban regime were under way yesterday as Afghanistan's
former king, pro-Western guerrilla leaders and American congressmen began talks in Rome."
Bruce Johnston in Rome and Ahmed Rashid in Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/01/wafg201.xml
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Militants from 20 nations ready to fight for Taliban
"With widespread defections depleting the Taliban forces, Mullah Omar has become increasingly
dependent on these foreign fighters. In turn, they know they have nowhere to go, because if they
return to their own countries they will be executed." From Islamabad. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/04/wtal04.xml
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Musharraf must decide which side he is on
"For the past two years Gen Musharraf has walked a fine line; trying to stem the growing
street power of Islamic fundamentalists who have been the bulwark of the army's long-term strategy
to carry on guerrilla war in Kashmir and support for the Taliban." Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/05/wruss105.xml
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Afghanistan: Hitting Kabul
"The U.S. is angry and ready to retaliate against terrorists. All eyes now turn to
Afghanistan." From Lahore. Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong.
http://www.feer.com/articles/2001/0109_20/p022region.html
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Ground troops facing guerrilla war danger
"Following last night's air strikes, two vast battlefields will emerge, one in the north and
the other in the centre of the country, as the Taliban struggle to retain their hold on
power." From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/08/wenem08.xml
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The Taliban: First, the War
"Since last year the United States government has been building an international alliance to
strangle the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan, eliminate the threat of resident terrorist Osama
bin Laden and put pressure on Pakistan to halt support for the Taliban. It is an alliance that,
according to an official of the U.S. National Security Council, 'starts from Afghanistan's
neighbours and extends to the Group of Eight, Nato, the European Union, East Asia and the Middle
East.'" From Washington, DC. Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong.
http://www.feer.com/articles/2001/0108_02/p026region.html
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Pakistan, the Taliban and the US
The demands, the trade-offs, the impacts, the backlash and Afghanistan's future. The Nation, USA.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011008&s=rashid
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US demands use of Pakistani air space
"Washington's requests are believed to include permission for the use of Pakistani air space
for the bombing of bin Laden's camps, the immediate halting of Pakistani fuel and supplies to the
Taliban, the closure of Pakistan's borders with Afghanistan in order to prevent Arab terrorists
fleeing, and sharing intelligence information." By Ahmed Rashid in Lahore and Rahul Bedi in
New Delhi. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/15/watt315.xml
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Pakistan faces dilemma after backing Bush
"A senior Pakistani official said: 'This is a moment of reckoning for Pakistan. It has to
decide whether it wants to be part of the international community or to go it alone with all the
risks involved of becoming a pariah state.'" Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/14/wpak114.xml
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Arab militants flee Kabul as tension rises
"'Bin Laden may have used the murder of Massoud as a means to win support with the Taliban at
the precise moment he knew he would need that support most, because he [bin Laden] was also
planning the bombings in the US,' said a Western diplomat. 'But I doubt he told the Taliban about
the US bombings, which is why they are so shocked.'" From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/14/wpak14.xml
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Aid groups quit Kabul in fear of US attacks
"More than 100 UN and aid workers left Kabul and four other cities in an airlift organised by
the UN in Pakistan." From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/13/waid13.xml
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Bin Laden seen as the prime suspect
"For months Washington has been promising a new Afghanistan policy, combining incentives and
pressures on the Taliban, bin Laden and Pakistan, the Taliban's main backer. Yet the Bush
administration has delayed its review and has taken a hands-off attitude towards Afghanistan. The
result has been a lack of policy or direction in a part of the world which is the centre of global
terrorism." Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/12/wprime12.xml
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Wealthy businessman who controls thousands of Arab militants
About Osama bin Laden and Al'Qaeda. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/12/wosama12.xml
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Afghanistan resistance leader feared dead in blast
"Front spokesmen denied that he had died and accused the Taliban, the wanted Saudi terrorist
Osama bin Laden and Pakistan of planning the assassination attempt." From Lahore. Daily
Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/11/wmass11.xml
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Afghan resistance chief hurt by camera bomb
"Massoud was giving an interview in his office to a group of Arab journalists who had arrived
from Kabul. When they started filming, the camera exploded." From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/10/wtal10.xml
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Al'Qaeda 'has network of sleepers across North America'
About the supporters, recruits, training, financing, communication and network organization. Daily
Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/15/whunt115.xml
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One-eyed tyrant of the Taliban who remains invisible to his subjects
History of Mullah Omar and his friendship with Osama bin Laden. From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/17/wafg117.xml
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US 'lacks knowledge to launch land war'
"The lack of intelligence stems from Washington's decision effectively to ignore developments
in Afghanistan from 1989 after Moscow withdrew its forces." From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/19/wwar19.xml
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Nuclear test sanctions unlikely to be eased
"Western intelligence officials have long been concerned that fundamentalist forces might
seize power in Pakistan and gain control of its nuclear arsenal. This now seems a real
possibility." By Ahmed Rashid in Islamabad and Rahul Bedi in New Delhi. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/20/wmil120.xml
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US seeks approval of Teheran regime
"Iran will not join the US-led multinational coalition even though it loathes the Taliban. But
Washington is anxious to make sure that Iran will raise no objections to its planned military
action, and it wishes to reassure Teheran that it has no aggressive designs against Iran
itself." From Islamabad. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/20/wiran20.xml
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Tribal mix is the key, not military might
"Experts believe that breaking up the Taliban infrastructure depends, in large measure, on
offering a credible plan to install a new government that can win legitimacy across a country that
has been torn apart by war for more than two decades." From Islamabad. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/20/wafg20.xml
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Hardliners stand beside bin Laden
"Equally significant has been the growing rift between the hardliners who surround Mullah Omar
in Kandahar and the moderates who form the government in Kabul and have had to deal with the
international community and the growing humanitarian crisis in the country." Daily Telegraph,
UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/21/wafg21.xml
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Taliban dissidents may defect to exiled king
"Hundreds of Taliban commanders, mullahs and tribal leaders are ready to defect to the former
King Zahir Shah who has issued an appeal for a national uprising against the regime." From
Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/21/wafg221.xml
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Anarchy as Taliban lose control
"Law and order was breaking down in Kabul yesterday as Taliban soldiers and poverty-stricken
civilians carried out armed daylight robberies and looted houses left empty by people who have
fled." Daily Telegraph, UK.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/21/wafg321.xml
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Musharraf 'must act to limit support for Islamists'
"If Pakistan can get economic relief, Gen Musharraf can point out the benefits of his alliance
with the West. But if the American military campaign extends to months, which is likely, the danger
of the Islamic parties being able to rally greater support will increase." From Lahore. Daily
Telegraph, UK.
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