KABUL: A French aid worker who was kidnapped in Kabul has been released, according to France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy. Dany Egreteau, 32, was seized in the Afghan capital by gunmen on 3 November. An Afghan driver was killed as he tried to stop the abduction. The French foreign ministry said it had been working with Afghan [...]
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has asked NATO forces not to challenge the sovereignty of Pakistan by saying that no foreign interference would be tolerated at Pakistan’s borders areas. The Prime Minister expressed these views while talking to visiting French Chief of Staff Committee, Admiral Edward Gillard and in a telephonic conversation with the [...]
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DAMASCUS: France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday that pulling out of Afghanistan, where 10 French troops were killed by the Taliban last month, would amount to abandoning nuclear-armed Pakistan. “If we abandon Afghanistan we will be abandoning Pakistan, which doesn’t need that. I want to remind you of one thing: that Pakistan has the [...]
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KABUL, Sept 04 (SANA): Conflicting accounts of a Taliban ambush of an elite French military unit in the Surubi district of Kabul province on August 18 have raised new concerns about the future of France’s politically unpopular deployment in Afghanistan. Ten soldiers were killed and 21 wounded in one of the largest Taliban operations since [...]
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