Posted on 02/11/2008 5:55:13 PM PST by HAL9000
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Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan has gone missing before he was due to cross into Afghanistan from Pakistan.Sources have told the BBC that the ambassador, Tariq Azizuddin, was kidnapped in the Khyber tribal agency close to the Afghan border.
The Pakistani embassy in Kabul says contact was lost with Mr Azizuddin at around 1045 local time (0645 GMT).
Many areas in the border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan are strongholds of pro-Taleban militants.
Dangerous region
Mr Azizuddin was going to Kabul from Peshawar by road when he disappeared.
The BBC's Alastair Leithead in Afghanistan says that police in Pakistan's Khyber Agency said they believed that Mr Azizuddin had been kidnapped.
There were reports on Pakistani television of his car going through a checkpoint without stopping.
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He was going by road? Dumb move.
Benazir Bhutto’s assassination was a big defeat for the USA. If elected, she would have allowed US forces into Pakistan to deal with these scum. Musharraf won’t allow that.
Bkmark, Thanks Hal, G8.
No problem
I don’t think either of them could allow that and live, but we’ll never know now.
I doubt it. She was instrumental in helping the Taliban get set up to extend her influence into Afghanistan in the first place.
When you get down to nuts and bolts, Taliban and Al Qaeda are two different things. Without getting into all of that, she would have allowed US troops into Pakistan. This was no secret. It’s for this reason that I’m convinced that Al Qaeda killed her.
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