More than two months, there was no sign of life from him - now is a video with pictures of the missing Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan emerged: It declared the man of Taliban have been delayed. Cairo - around him are armed men to see: In an Arab television station, al-Arabija broadcast video explains Tariq Azizuddin, by the Taliban than to have been taken hostage. More than two months after his disappearance is the first sign of life of the Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan. The recording showed the ambassadors, his driver and bodyguard before three masked men with automatic weapons. The diplomat urged his country's ambassador in Iran and China and the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the demands of hostage to fulfill. Which demands the kidnappers, however, remained unclear. The diplomat says in the video that he was on 11 February to the trip to Kabul near the Afghan border along with his driver and bodyguard were kidnapped. He suffer from high blood pressure and heart complaints. The circumstances of his arrest hostage but were comparatively good. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said the video will be examined. Among the demands of the kidnappers said the ministry also not. hen / dpa / AP
Islamabad will contribute to the high security zone: A massive police should protect the Pakistani capital, on Wednesday when the Olympic torch arrives in Pakistan - for fear of terrorist attacks was the route of the run already significantly changed. Islamabad - An Olympic torch run through the center of Islamabad - the National Olympic Committee of Pakistan had great plans, but it is now nothing: Fearing terrorist attacks of Islamic extremists, the Pakistani authorities of the route for Wednesday in Islamabad planned Olympic torch run relocated. The National Olympic Committee announced, will not run as planned in the city, but in a sports centre closed. A massive security deployment will protect the event. In Pakistan, came in the last few months hundreds of people in attacks near Taliban extremists killed. protests against China's Tibet and human rights policy as in London or Paris are in Islamabad, however, not expected. "Tibet is an inalienable part of China," quoted the state news agency APP President Pervez Musharraf. Pakistan condemn all, the Tibetan "separatists" supported. Unlike in the neighboring country India, where the Olympic torch on Thursday station will make living in Pakistan hardly exile Tibetans. Moreover entertain Islamabad and Beijing for decades a close bilateral relations. Thus, China should be the main arms supplier of the Pakistani military. Without incident, the Olympic flame at this Monday through the Sultanate of Oman were taken. The organisers of the torch run, chose a 20-kilometer course, from a few dozen athletes in the afternoon in the coastal city of Muscat has been completed. After the stopover in the Middle East, the Olympic flame on the Asian continent back. Oman Sports Minister Ali bin Ali bin Masood el Sunaidi, the Olympic flame in Muscat in the morning reception. In Muscat, where demonstrations are rare anyway, there were no significant disruptions by anti-Chinese protests to be expected. The runners were cheered by 300 scouts. Oman maintains good relations with China. The small country on the Arabian Peninsula supplied China with oil, Chinese companies are again in building projects in the Gulf state. The torch run was in London and Paris in early April by massive protests against China's Tibet policy accompanied the subsequent run in San Francisco was then significantly reduced. The following stations in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam remained the run but without significant interference. After the recent incidents at the International Olympic torch run for Beijing think the Summer Games in 2012 in London on a purely national race for the flame. But had not yet decided whether the fire only on the British island of his round. "We should take no decision before the dust of Beijing has," said Olympic Minister Tessa Jowell. The problem is "in the next four years" carefully discussed. hen / dpa / AFP
From Annett Meiritz Afghanistan threatened with a force no march, Pakistan insists on its sovereignty - the mood is becoming increasingly irritated. On top hopes U.S. President Bush, his record with a prestige project to be crowned: the seizure of terror chief bin Laden. Washington / Islamabad - The diplomatic hot lines run between Pakistan and Afghanistan: On Monday ordered the Pakistani Foreign Ministry hurry the Afghan Ambassador Anwar Anwarsai - what diplomats as unsanfte tour. The ambassador was "a sharp protest forward", it said. It would "absolutely clear" that the inviolable sovereignty of the country. REUTERS Afghan President Karzai: "The right to retaliate" This provides for President Pervez Musharraf is equal in front double aufgeweicht: Afghanistan threatens with more military presence, while ensuring missile attacks by the U.S. army in the Pakistani border for dynamite. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai had at the weekend so that the first open threatened to send troops across the border to Pakistan to send to the government in Islamabad the radical Islamic Taliban continue to shelter. "Afghanistan has the right to terrorists' nests on the other side of the border in an act of self-defence to destroy," scharfzüngig sounds were coming from Kabul. "If they crossed the border from Pakistan and Afghan and coalition troops kill, then we have the right to do the same." Karzai's speech was fire from new extremist events of the weekend angefeuert: on Friday night stormed the Taliban with a the spectacular double attack grßte prison südafghanischen city of Kandahar. After a suicide bomber and several rockets prison walls weggebombt had searched the width of tausendHäftlinge, including hundreds of Taliban fighters. Schmettert threat from Pakistan "Pakistan will continue its territorial sovereignty in any case to defend," came the reply from biting Islamabad. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the fight against Karzai's announcement will help the insurgents in the fight against terrorism. Any expression of the sovereignty of Pakistan ausweiche, was "counterproductive" and "irresponsible". Actually hadPakistan and Afghanistan in April to restart their relations agreed - in the final, they wanted to shoulder against international terrorism, as the goal. But as the Bush administration is of the opinion Afghanistan, Pakistan was not consistent enough against extremists. The border area in northwest Pakistan is regarded as retreat space for Taliban fighters and Qaida terrorists. Bush wants bin Laden making - even before the official end Almost simultaneously with the sharp threat against Karzai's Pakistan seems to mix the USA become more: According to a Report of the British "Times" hopes U.S. President George W. Bush, the end of his term with a brilliant finish to Fahndungserfolg: Bush should set a goal, terror chief Osama Bin Laden to grab before he leaves the White House, writes the daily. The U.S.assume that Bin Laden in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan resides. "When Bush took office in the review was not only a dead Saddam Hussein, along with some other locked in the Bin Laden would find," the newspaper quoted U.S. intelligence experts, "then it could show the world that his anti-terror approach is the only was correct. " Afghanistancard blows between Grenznachbarn Under the leadership of the U.S. secret services was a Bin Laden-offensive begun a new quality to the terror chief to find it was. The "Times" refers to information from intelligence circles and the Ministry of Defence. In the hunt are with air-to-ground missiles equipped Aufklärungsdrohnen involved, including British special forces were to use the special part, writes the Times. Officially, Bush himself said during his visit to Britain will not do so. The newspaper claimed that Bush but the British special forces but to remain in high gear after Osama Bin Laden. The U.S. Senate was 2007, a bounty of 50 million U.S. dollars on the terror chief. Partners in Crisis? The diplomatic relations between the strategic partners are currently anything but tensions. U.S. missile attacks on the tribal regions in the west of Pakistan shall have been a few weeks for arge Verstimmungen between Pakistan and the United States. In the case of a U.S. air raid last Wednesday were at least eleven Pakistani soldiers killed. A "totally unprovoked and cowardly" attack, Pakistan's army spokesman raged - the Pentagon defended the action as "rechtmßigen attack" against insurgents. Top Concluding his visit to Europe, Bush tried on Monday to smooth the waves: On the question of a journalist whether he's hard line against Pakistan Karzai's support, which Bush. Instead, it offered the outgoing U.S. president, between the neighboring countries to mediate: "We can help to calm the situation," said Bush. The only goal of U.S. troops is to combat extremists who kill innocent people. "That is the goal in Afghanistan - and they have to be the target of Pakistan," Bush said - quite diplomatic. With material from dpa / ap / Reuters / afp
Pakistan has a large-scale military offensive against the Taliban in the region of Peshawar started. Previously, the access roads closed and a curfew imposed. The Taliban announced an end to the peace talks. Islamabad - The use of Pakistani security forces concentrated, according to the police chiefs of the North West province the first in Bara town in the Afghan border. About Peshawar security circles was that a curfew imposed. Strong troops were relocated to the area. The hospitals in Peshawar have been newspaper reports alert puts. AFP Pakistani security forces in Peshawar: fight against the Taliban Soldiers blocked the main road to Khyber. The area around the Khyber Pass has long been a stronghold of smugglers and other criminals. Since last year, but there are also increasingly fighters of the radical Islamic Taliban active. Their appearance in the region around the two-hour drive away from Islamabad, Peshawar city as an expression of the political and military failure, the penetration of Islamists to stop. - The Khyber tribal area is also an important supply route for supplies to the international troops in the neighbouring country Afghanistan. likely objective of the offensive was the leader of the Movement vice and virtue, Haji Namdar. The organization is suspected of numerous attacks on coalition troops in Afghanistan to have perpetrated. Namdar tries in the region a strict interpretation of Islam enforced. It is, however, in conflict with Baitullah Mehsud, a Taliban leader in Pakistan. "Government continually violence" Another possible objective of the soldiers is Menghal Bagh, whose followers attacks perpetrated in Peshawar. Namdars group declared a military operation would only create new problems. "We are ready for talks with the government," said a spokesman. The Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud announced as a consequence of the offensive end of the talks with the government. "We put the peace talks, because the government continually uses violence against us," said Mehsud. The Pakistani government had peace talks with rebels in the tribal-controlled border region with Afghanistan. Despite the talks were held in the past weeks repeated attacks by the rebels. The current deployment is initiated only the beginning of several military operations against his movement, the Taliban spokesman. Mehsud threatened with retaliatory actions nationwide. Prime Minister Jusuf Raza Gilani held on Saturday in Peshawar, with one million inhabitants grßten city in northwestern Pakistan. His visit is not made with the imminent military operation, it was official. Next was reported, the armed forces had developed a contingency plan should the extremists try to attack Peshawar. as / sam / Reuters / AP / AFP
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