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The Taliban on Monday confirmed that Pakistan s powerful intelligence chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed has met its de-facto leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, amidst efforts by the insurgent group to finalise a government in Afghanistan. Inte stanley cup r-Services Intelligence ISI Director General Lt Gen Hameed dashed to Kabul on an unannounced visit last week, becoming the only high-ranking foreign official to visit Kabul since the Taliban seized the Afghan capital in mid-August. Reuters Inter-Services Intelligence ISI Director General Lt Gen Hameed dashed to Kabul on an unannounced visit last week, becoming the on stanley mugs ly high-ranking foreign official to visit Kabul since the Taliban seized the Afghan capital in mid-August. During a press conference in Kabul on Monday, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed that the ISI chief had met with Mullah Baradar during his visit to Kabul, BBC Urdu reported. The Taliban has assured Islamabad that Afghan territory will not be used against Pakistan, it said. Earlier, Pakistani media reported that a delegation of senior officials led by Lt Gen Hameed was in Kabul at the in stanley tazas vitation of the Taliban, but the insurgent group said that Islamabad had proposed his visit to Kabul. On Sunday, the Taliban said that the top Pakistani spy was in Afghanistan to improve bilateral relations between Kabul and Islamabad. Ahmadullah Wasiq, deputy head of the Talibans Cultural Commission, said that the Taliban leaders talked with Lt Gen Hameed about bilater Afys Former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe s state funeral tomorrow: 10 points
Turkish police have detained 20 people, including 15 foreign nationals, on suspicion of links to Islamic State during raids in Istanbul, tightening security ahead of the anniversary of a nightclub attack in which dozens were killed. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a meeting in Ankara, stanley mugs Turkey, December 18, 2017. Reuters The raids by the anti-terrorist branch of the stanley cup Istanbul police took place on Saturday and targeted four locations across the city, the police said in a statement on Sunday. They did not give the nationalities of the foreign suspects. The state-run Anadolu news agency said the suspects were believed to have been planning an attack during New Years Eve celebrations in the city. Turkish police have been ramping up operations against suspected Islamic State militants in recent days, detaining around 195 on Thursday and Friday. During New Years celebrations a year ago, a man with an assault rifle shot dead 39 people including Turks and visitors from several Arab nations, India and Canada at an exclusive nightclub in Istanbul, the countrys biggest city. Islamic State claimed responsibility for that shooting, one of a series of attacks believed to have been carried out by the jihadists and Kurdish militants in Turkey in the last couple of years. A trial of tho termo stanley se allegedly involved in the nightclub attack began this month. On New Years Eve, the number of police officers on duty in Istanbul will be doubled to 37,000 and public celebrations wi |
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