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Taliban kill US "spy'

LANDI KOTAL, Pakistan: Local Taliban killed an Afghan national in Khyber Agency on Wednesday for allegedly spying on them for United States forces in Afghanistan, official sources said. The Taliban dumped the body near Government Degree College Landi Kotal. The Afghan was later identified as Zainullah, a native of the Afghan province of Nangarhar. He had been living in Malagori area of Jamrud tehsil.The sources said an unidentified group of Taliban had killed Zainullah and a note found next to his body stated that he was an American spy. It warned that all those spying for the Americans would be treated in a similar manner. 

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Bilal Qureshi

Bilal Qureshi is a resident of Washington, DC, so it is only natural that he is tremendously interested in politics. He is also fascinated by the relationship between Pakistan, the country of his birth, and the United States of America, his adopted homeland. Therefore, he makes every effort to read major newspapers in Pakistan and what is being said about Washington, while staying fully alert to the analysis and the news being reported in the American press about Pakistan. After finishing graduate school, he started using his free time to write to various papers in Pakistan in an effort to clarify whatever misconceptions he noticed in the press, especially about the United States. This pastime became a passion after his letters were published in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and his writing became more frequent and longer. Now, he is here, writing a blog about Pakistan managed by Foreign Policy Association.

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Taliban; US-Pakistan Relations; Culture and Society

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