Word: quetta
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...found stored in his satellite telephone the numbers of several top Taliban military commanders, all hiding in Pakistan. His warden says Mujahed was caught with 60 remote-controlled bombs that he allegedly confessed to picking up in Pakistan after attending a Taliban war council in the southern city of Quetta...
...President Pervez Musharraf's government has done little to capture the many Taliban commanders who have fled into hiding in the country, according to Afghan officials and Taliban fighters and sympathizers in the frontier Pakistani cities of Quetta and Peshawar. Those exiles include Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed mullah who formerly led the Taliban. Pakistan's reluctance, according to a senior Kabul official, stems from its "nostalgia" for when Afghanistan was firmly within its orbit of influence. Letting the Taliban remain free gives Pakistan a card to play if or when the U.S. decides to vacate Afghanistan. "If money...
...influence events in Afghanistan to Pakistan's benefit by backing the Taliban. Officials in Kabul are perplexed that Pakistan has failed to capture a single top Taliban commander, although U.S. and Afghan officials have evidence that dozens of rebel chiefs are living openly in the Pakistani border towns of Quetta and Peshawar. There is the perception in Kabul that, as one Afghan official put it, "if Islamabad can't have a satellite government in Afghanistan, their second option is to create chaos and keep the pot boiling...
...Afghan militia in Kandahar learned from informants where he and two of his comrades were hiding and passed the news to U.S. special forces, who prepared an ambush, according to Razzaq Sherzai, a militia commander whose troops took part in the mission. A memorial service for Shahzada in Quetta, Pakistan, last week drew many Taliban leaders wanted by the U.S., Sherzai says...
...regime in Afghanistan and denounced Shi'as as infidels, until it was proscribed in 2002 by the government. He and his followers were implicated in the deaths of scores of Shi'as, including more than 50 killed in a July attack on a mosque in the southern city of Quetta, and six shot dead in Karachi on Oct. 6. Tariq had survived numerous assassination attempts. Critics say the administration of President Pervez Musharraf has no strategy to deal with the violence. It better find one soon. Tariq's party, the MIP, has demanded the government arrest his killers...