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...Mosque by the Pakistani army shattered any pretenses of a peace agreement, and Mehsud's vows of revenge for the incident only brought him greater fame. In December of that year, he was tapped by a Taliban council to consolidate the group's loosely affiliated factions in Pakistan. The same month, on Dec. 27, former Prime Minister Benazir was assassinated...
...Baitullah is much stronger, much better. His way of talking, how he acts - he is a much more powerful leader." -Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan, Pakistan bureau chief for al-Jazeera, weighing in on comparisons between Mehsud and Mullah Omar, the famously reclusive leader of the Afghan Taliban. (TIME...
Read Joe Klein on Mehsud Read "The Face of Pakistan's New Taliban...
...national team. But three tournament wins in the past year, comprising 15 victories in 17 matches, have brought Afghanistan to the brink of an appearance among the world's best. At home, they are national heroes. (See pictures of the deadly attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Pakistan...
...devastated country should be able to field a cricket team at all, let alone one as successful as this, is an unbelievable achievement. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, they sent the country spiraling into 30 years of war. Millions of Afghans fled the country, many into neighboring Pakistan (from which they only started returning after the U.S.-led invasion of 2001). "At the time when the Red troops (Soviets) came, we fled to Pakistan and lived in Kacha Gari refugee camp...We thought we would never come back to our country," Abid says. (Watch a video about cricket...