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December 9, 2012

Pakistan's Military Shifts Gears on the Taliban

Ahmed Rashid, BBC News

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After a decade spent allowing the Afghan Taliban sanctuary and freedom to sustain its insurgency in Afghanistan, it is now pushing for peace talks between the Taliban, the Afghan government and the Americans before Nato forces withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014.

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TAGGED: Taliban, Pakistan, Afghanistan

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