All forces must pull out of Kabul: CE: UN peacekeepers demanded
ISTANBUL, Nov 13: President Gen Pervez Musharraf called on Tuesday for all forces to withdraw from Kabul and the deployment of a UN force in the city following its capture by...
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Northern Alliance troops enter Kabul
 KABUL/PESHAWAR, Nov 13: The Taliban on Tuesday abandoned the Afghan capital without firing a single shot and fled eastwards to their spiritual headquarters of Kandahar....
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Zahir considered interim head
WASHINGTON, Nov 13: Barely 60 hours after President George Bush had declared, with Gen Pervez Musharraf standing by his side, that the United States would not encourage the North Alliance from...
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UN plan for new setup
NEW YORK, Nov 13: The United Nations on Tuesday proposed a five-point plan to establish an inclusive post-Taliban government in Afghanistan, which it said should be backed by an all-Afghan security...
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World leaders call for broad-based govt
LONDON, Nov 13: The Northern Alliance’s unstoppable surge into Kabul on Tuesday prompted urgent calls around the world for the creation of a broad-based government in Afghanistan and greater UN involvement....
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Musharraf vows to check influence of extremists
NEW YORK, Nov 13: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that a tiny minority of “unenlightened, obscurantist and backward-looking” religious extremists will not be allowed to hold Pakistan back from becoming...
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Commanders gather in Chaman
QUETTA, Nov 13: The anti-Taliban Pakhtoon commanders were gathering in Chaman, Pakistan’s border town, to decide future line of action against Taliban government in Kandahar region which had already lost over...
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US urges ‘coalition of the willing’
NEW YORK, Nov 13: Amid calls for speedy formation of a broad-based multi-ethnic interim government in Afghanistan the US secretary of state Colin Powell has demanded for an international “coalition of...
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N. Alliance invites all groups for talks
KABUL, Nov 13: The Northern Alliance on Tuesday invited all Afghan groups to come to Kabul to start negotiations on the future of the country....
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Bush, Putin to continue anti-terror cooperation
WASHINGTON, Nov 13: The presidents of Russia and the United States agreed Tuesday to expand efforts to prevent terrorist groups from obtaining biological, chemical or nuclear weapons and to ensure that...
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Airbus crash claimed 269 lives
NEW YORK, Nov 13: The National Transportation Safety Board investigators said on Tuesday initial information from the cockpit voice recorder found in the wreckage of the American Airlines Airbus indicated Monday’s...
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Woman killed in LoC firing
SRINAGAR, Nov 13: A Muslim woman was killed and another three were wounded on Tuesday when Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged fire across the Line of Control, an Indian defence spokesman...
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Omar tells Taliban to stand and fight
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: Taliban leader Mulla Mohammad Omar on Tuesday ordered his troops to stand and fight after opposition forces marched into Kabul, the Afghan Islamic Press reported....
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Zaeef abandons embassy
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: The Taliban’s embassy in Pakistan — their only foreign embassy — closed down on Tuesday after the opposition Northern Alliance troops moved into Kabul....
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