Afghanistan: Taliban rebels attack
A car bomb exploded near a NATO convoy in a volatile area of southern Afghanistan, wounding five soldiers, a spokesman for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said Saturday. Squadron Leader David Marsh said the Taliban rebels also opened fire on their convoy in the Uruzgan province shortly after Friday’s bomb attack. He did not give the names or nationalities of the wounded soldiers, and only said they were being treated at a NATO-run hospital in Kandahar.
Syria: Talks with Hamas delayed
Crucial talks planned Saturday between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas’ exiled leader on forming a unity government were postponed, a senior member of a Palestinian faction said. The official said the Saturday meeting between Abbas and Khaled Mashaal had been canceled. “There are difficulties facing such a meeting and there are current mediations to try and resolve the problems,” he added, without elaborating. He said it was possible there would be a meeting today.
Pakistan: Separatist calls for peace
A separatist leader from India’s portion of Kashmir called for giving up the armed struggle in the disputed Himalayan region to pave the way for a negotiated settlement, a news report said Saturday. The remarks by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference were likely to draw criticism from his political opponents and Islamic militants. “We have already seen the results of our fight on the political and military fronts, which have not achieved anything other than creating more graveyards,” it quoted him as saying Friday in Islamabad.
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