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...intelligence and precious few leads about the whereabouts of bin Laden or his comrades. That may be because the Taliban, which controlled Afghanistan and gave comfort to al-Qaeda before the U.S. invaded, is regrouping. "The tribal chiefs are hedging their bets," says an adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. "They know that when the American soldiers leave their village, the Taliban will steal back to take revenge." A few miles north of Shkin, in a dusty bazaar known as Bormol, gunmen dragged a pro-American police chief and seven of his officers out into the marketplace this summer...
...mopping up the remnants of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. No nation has done more or paid a heavier price than Pakistan in fighting the scourge of terrorism. The assertion that Pakistan is undermining the stability of Afghanistan is far from the truth. We unreservedly support President Hamid Karzai's government. Pakistan has contributed to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and continues to do so. The government of Pakistan is deeply committed to fostering peace in Afghanistan and friendly relations with its people. Pakistan's army is one of the most professional in the world. It is united under the command...
...Rangina works on women's issues-including self-sufficiency projects-for Afghans for Civil Society, a nongovernmental organization founded by Qayum Karzai, brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Every morning, she walks the crooked lanes of Kandahar urging women to learn to read and encouraging families to send their little girls to school. Refusing to wear a hijab, Rangina is an unusual sight in deeply conservative Kandahar, where most women remain cloistered at home. Hers is not a universally popular pitch. Some husbands forbid their wives to listen...
...Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier province if the Taliban did not vouch for them. In this view, the Taliban is still harboring al-Qaeda--not, as formerly, in Afghanistan but in Pakistan. And al-Qaeda fighters may be joining with the Taliban in operations. A spokesman for Karzai insisted that Pakistanis and Arabs were part of the raiding party that killed seven Afghan policemen in Paktika province...
...ruined economy, continued banditry and the return of the opium trade, a revived Taliban is the last thing that Karzai's poor nation needs. In a speech last month on Afghanistan's Independence Day, Karzai said, "It is the duty of everybody to launch a holy war to reconstruct this nation." The Taliban has already launched a holy war of its own. Soon enough the snows will come and the summer's fighting will die down. But if the U.S. and its ally Pakistan do not crush the Taliban soon, next year promises more bloodshed. "We are waiting," says Qari...