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Taliban commander contacts Kabul in bid to broker Turkish engineer's release

NWFP tribal elders face legal action

Grand old lady of the Frontier has lost none of her lively spirit

PML-Q official triggers controversy

Former Taliban foreign minister Mulla Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil has returned to his native Kandahar, Afghanistan, after being released from the US military airbase in Bagram.

Taliban ploy to bleed Nato becomes apparent

The dilemma facing Pakistan

No guarantee killing of civilians and burning of books won't happen again

See militancy in national context, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif told

Her death marks the first killing of a woman by separatists, breaking tribal traditions protecting the weak during war

The Afghan government has denied the claims that Maulana Fazlullah, leader of the Pakistani Taliban in Swat, was killed

Flow of militants entering Afghanistan to fight on the side of the Afghan Taliban also fall considerably