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More US troops may be needed in Afghanistan, says general

After attending a function to mark the birth anniversary of the Quaid-e-Azam, Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz told newsmen that representatives of the four countries would meet in line with the decision taken during the quadrilateral meeting held earlier on the occasion of the Heart of Asia conference in Islamabad.

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While most emigrants pay traffickers in cash or installments until they reach a final destination, some resort to loans, credits and even modern forms of slavery, often plunging into debt bondage, servitude and prostitution, according to U.S. State Department human trafficking reports. The scheduled reduction to 5,500 troops by Jan 1, 2017 should be put-off for as long as possible. Special Operations troops and their helicopters now deploy from the base, which is also used by US F-16s, which have carried out some 4,000 sorties over Afghanistan this year.


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If the broadcasts take hold, officials fear they will feed off a growing sense of hopelessness among many inured to war and struggling to get by in an increasingly tough economic climate.


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Total casualty figures for Afghan security forces have not been made public, but are said by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military sources to be 28 per cent higher than the 2014 toll of around 5,000.

The reference to Pakistani refugees is a rebuke to us as some of our politicians have been persistent in demanding the forced repatriation of Afghan refugees. Michael Morell, the former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency who recently wrote a book about U.S. efforts to destroy Al Qaeda, told The Times that the Taliban will give Al Qaeda a safe haven in Afghanistan, as they did before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on USA soil.

In a separate statement, a US State Department official said the United States would not support lifting sanctions imposed on the Taliban until they showed their sincerity to the Afghan reconciliation process. So he’s been very flexible. Until this fall, USA officials had largely focused on targeting the last remaining senior Qaida leaders hiding along Afghanistan’s rugged, mountainous border with Pakistan.

“If we don’t stay engaged here to build their capacity to fight this, keep sanctuary down, it’s coming back to the homeland”, Campbell said.

And one thing in particular set them apart from government officials: they never demanded a bribe. President Obama announced the new plan in October after a resurgent Taliban made some gains and Afghan security forces proved unready to protect the country themselves.

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Islamic State is a relatively new force in Afghanistan and there is some dispute about how strong it is, how many members it commands and how closely it is linked operationally to the movement’s main arm in Iraq and Syria.

U.S. general More troops may be needed in Afghanistan