Burhanuddin Rabbani

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  Attacks On Kabul's Diplomatic Quarter

  At least six people were killed in a Taliban siege near the Spanish embassy in Kabul's diplomatic quarter that ended on Saturday, the latest insurgent attack in the highly fortified area.

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  Taliban Leader, Who Afghanistan Says is Dead, a Pious Enigma

  One of the most wanted men in the world for over a decade, Mullah Omar was also one of the most elusive.

• Top Afghan peace negotiator shot dead in Kabul: Official

  A senior member of Afghanistan's High Peace Council and close adviser to President Hamid Karzai was shot dead from a passing car in Kabul today.

• Musharraf: Mistake to keep Pakistan out of Afghan talks

  Pakistan today described as "false and baseless" the Afghan government's allegation that it had evidence of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani's assassination being planned on the outskirts of Quetta where key Taliban leaders are based. (Read: Afghan leader gives up trying to talk to Taliban; blames Pakistan for Rabbani's assassination)Pakistan's...

• Happy that US has the same conclusion on ISI: Krishna

  India today said it was good that the United States recognised the link between the Haqqani network and Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), both of which have been blamed for the assassination of former Afghan President Burhanudin Rabbani.

• Distraught followers bury slain Afghan ex-leader Burhanuddin Rabbani

  A surging crowd of mourners on Friday touched and kissed the coffin of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, slain by a suicide bomber claiming to carry a Taliban peace message, and vented at their own government and its efforts to reconcile with the insurgency.

• Afghan president: Rabbani's killer staged a ruse

  The suicide bomber who killed Afghanistan's former president, Burhanuddin Rabbani, gained access to him by presenting officials beforehand with an audio recording of a purported Taliban peace offer, President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday.

• Rabbani's assassin waited days to talk to him

  The suicide bomber who assassinated former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani insisted on meeting face-to-face with the ex-president and waited in Kabul for days to talk with him about brokering peace with the Taliban, an associate of Rabbani's said on Wednesday.

• Rabbani's assassin waited days to talk to him

  The suicide bomber who assassinated former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani insisted on meeting face-to-face with the ex-president and waited in Kabul for days to talk with him about brokering peace with the Taliban, an associate of Rabbani's said Wednesday.

• Ex-Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani killed by 'turban bomb'

  A Taliban suicide bomber, with explosives hidden in his turban, on Tuesday assassinated Afghanistan's former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading efforts to talk peace with insurgents.

• Afghan envoys head to Pakistan for peace talks

  Afghan efforts to broker peace with the Taliban enter a new phase this week with the first scheduled visit of envoys to Islamabad, part of a growing recognition that the process hinges on Pakistan.Afghanistan's ex-president Burhanuddin Rabbani will take a group from President Hamid Karzai's High Council for Peace to neighbouring Pakistan on Tuesday...

• Karzai confirms holding talks with Taliban

  Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed holding unofficial talks with the Taliban "for quite some time," in a bid to end the nine-year war, according to an interview transcript released yesterday.     "We have been talking to the Taliban as countryman to countryman, talk in that manner," Karzai told CNN's Larry King when asked a...