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...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...
Afghanistan would not be such a worry if Taliban fighters were not able to find a haven in Pakistan among fellow ethnic Pashtuns. With their beards trimmed and often without their trademark black turbans, they blend in easily. In the Pakistani town of Quetta, as in the border village of Chaman, pro-Taliban graffiti are common and copies of recordings made by Mullah Omar are available in the marketplace. Standing in the middle of a bustling street in Quetta, Aghar Jan, who fled Afghanistan in 2001, loudly proclaims his willingness to take up Omar's call to jihad and expel...
...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 Rehman, a Talib in Chaman. "You will see. The situation will get worse." --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Ghulam Hasnain/Chaman and Quetta, Tim McGirk/Kabul, Michael Ware/Kandahar and Rahimullah Yusufzai/Peshawar
...While rallying old soldiers, the Taliban are also recruiting new members, targeting disgruntled young Afghans in refugee camps in Chaman, Quetta, Peshawar and Karachi. The appeals play on pride and alienation, charging that the Americans are denigrating Islam and Pashtuns. "You are seeing the picture of a dirty Jewish infidel searching the body of a Muslim woman," reads a flyer found in Chaman, which shows a Western soldier frisking a burqa-clad female. "If a Muslim does not display his feelings by defending his faith and honor, then he is not a Muslim nor an Afghan...