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Article: Pakistan roots for Karzai in Taliban-troubled neighbor.
- Article from:
- Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2009
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Byline: AFP
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is rooting for incumbent President Hamid Karzai to win Afghan elections, hoping polls foster stability as a fierce Taliban insurgency spills between both nations, analysts say.
Afghanistan and Pakistan, two countries bound together in the new US foreign policy buzz word Af-Pak, are neighbors with relations scarred by decades of mistrust that ebb and flow with different regimes.
Pakistan s powerful intelligence agencies were pivotal in passing on cash and weapons provided by a covert CIA operation to arm the mujahedeen who fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1979 to 1989.
In the ensuing ...