Source: Wall Street Journal
As the election results were becoming clear, Pakistan’s Aaj TV news station summed up the cautious optimism with which the country greeted Obama’s victory, flashing the headline: “Obama wins, world awaits promised change.”
For many in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Obama’s promised change can’t come soon enough. Both countries are struggling to beat back […]

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Source: Los Angeles Times
Asif Ali Zardari uses his first news conference as president of Pakistan to signal stronger ties with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Questions remain about Zardari’s ability to lead.
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — In a determined show of solidarity, the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan declared Tuesday that they stood together in the fight against […]

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Source: Associated Press
By AMIR SHAH, Associated Press Writer
Hundreds of Afghans gathered in eastern Afghanistan Monday in support of President Hamid Karzai’s threat to send troops after Taliban militants inside Pakistan, officials said.
Ghami Mohammad Yar, spokesman for the governor of Paktika province, which borders Pakistan, said hundreds of tribesmen, elders and clerics had gathered at the […]

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Source: Daily Times
KABUL: United States lawmakers met Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Sunday, saying that they would raise concerns with Pakistan about its peace deals with extremists.
The US congressmen said part of the reason for their visit to Kabul and Islamabad was to look into the issue of extremist ‘sanctuaries’ in Pakistan.
There is […]

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Source: CBC News
An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam.
The three-judge panel sentenced Sayad Parwez Kambaksh to death for distributing a paper that humiliated Islam, said Fazel Wahab, the chief judge in the […]

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Source: China World
ISLAMABAD, (Xinhua) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai will pay a two-day visit to Pakistan from Dec. 26 at the invitation of President Pervez Musharraf, according to the Pakistani foreign ministry on Wednesday.

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