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Taliban Targets Jewish Ties

Link: Taliban Targets Jewish Ties

The Taliban has released footage showing its members searching for Afghan people who voted in last week’s elections, reports Al Jazeera.

The video shows Taliban fighters stopping vehicles and checking people’s fingers for signs of the indelible ink used to prevent people from voting twice. People with ink stains were apparently abducted by the Taliban.

The Taliban had threatened to cut off ink-stained fingers before polling took place to deter citizens from voting.

Poll: Pakistanis oppose Taliban, still revile US

Link: Poll: Pakistanis oppose Taliban, still revile US

While Pakistan has found the surge in Taliban militants who attack their lands and cities to be an oath of war, it seems as though over the past decade, Americans have done something of the same. Great foreign policy work on our part. Fail again—

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistanis’ views on the Taliban have shifted dramatically in the past year, with 70 percent now opposing the militants, a poll released Thursday said. The United States doesn’t fare well either, with 64 percent of Pakistanis seeing Washington as an enemy.


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