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“We should remove our differences”.

The Afghan Taliban has publicly named its new leader: Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, according to two commanders of the Islamic militant organization. Mansoor has-been an “active director” of the jihad, or holy war, for some years, it added.

Those who are suspicious of Pakistan’s role in these events believe that Mullah Omar’s longstanding opposition to reconciliation with the ill-equipped and shaky Kabul regime may have outlived its use. This ruled out his 26-year-old son, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoub, who is...

That is a fantasy.

“If anyone does not obey the new chief of the Taliban then he will be not in the Taliban“, he said simply. “Mansoor is a meek and forbearing person”.

China has expressed its backing for Pakistan and other parties to “push for peace and reconciliation” in the war-torn Afghanistan, days after the second round of peace talks were put off following news of Taliban chief Mullah Omar’s death.

In a statement issued on the website of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Abdul Qayum Zakir said that he has heard that some reports have quoted Mullah Mohammad Hassan Rehmani, Mullah Abdul Razaq and Mullah Mohammad Rasool that he had differences with new Amir Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. The...

Manan said: “We have not declared allegiance to anyone and will never do it because of the differences over the new leader”.

The European Union agreed that this position was “fully compatible” with its own agenda on a Greek bailout, which could be worth up to €86 billion (RM361.97 billion).

Greece’s main stock index plunged over 22 percent as it reopened Monday after a five-week closure, giving investors their first opportunity since June to react to the country’s latest economic crisis.

Don Gimbel, global portfolio manager of Geneva Advisors in Chicago – who oversees $9 billion – asks, “Why would anybody want to be invested in a controlled market?”

On July 29, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh announced “a new chapter of cooperation” with the French energy company Total after a meeting in Tehran with France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.

Earlier in the year of 2010 on April 25, two Pakistani terrorists who had infiltrated into the country from across the Indo-Pak border were killed in an encounter at Ratrawan village in Bamiyal sector, of Gurdaspur district.

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The Taliban on Friday formally announced their new leader, saying he had been running the insurgent group’s operations for years in the absence of former leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. It is widely believed that Mullah Omar fled over the border to Pakistan, where he lived...