Even before the Afghan crisis, Sistan-Baluchestan was the most sensitive of Iran's difficult border regions.
Al Qaeda escaped capture and they set up in the border regions between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Efforts for civic inclusion in border regions can be made at the neighborhood, metropolitan or even transnational scale.
Care about civilian casualties is important, but the Predators are the best weapon we have in the mountainous border regions.
Increasingly, the Pakistani government recognizes that terrorist networks in its border regions are a threat to all our countries, especially Pakistan.
To compensate resource-poor provinces, a special subsidy was created for border regions.
Turks in Hatay, the southern province where the town is located, complain that the rebels roam freely, disrupting calm in Turkey's border regions.
As we speak, al Qaeda continues to plot against us, and its leadership remains anchored in the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"The safe havens in the border regions provide launching pads for these sorts of attacks, and they need to be shut down, " he said.
It is focused not only on Kathmandu, but also on what it alleges are covert activities of NGOs in border regions such as Mustang.
We have to fight them in very concrete ways in Afghanistan and along the border regions of Pakistan where they are still holed up.
Al-Qaeda's bosses are almost certainly in the border regions of Pakistan, but the Pakistani government has been unable, and perhaps unwilling, to go after them.
Since the suspension of those talks in 2009, China has poured investment into its border regions to try to encourage Chinese-style market reforms in North Korea.
While the Pentagon operates the drones in Afghanistan, the CIA for nearly a decade has used drones to target militants, including Afghans, in Pakistan's border regions.
Enough happened at the jirga, then, to begin a formal dialogue over the turbulent border regions, and a follow-up gathering was agreed, to take place in Pakistan.
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About half of the money would be spent in the troubled border regions with Afghanistan, he added, on improving governance, economic development and "when necessary" appropriate military pressure.
So long as they can continue to control what happens in the border regions, they may decide to go along with the accords or at least to appear to do so.
Musharraf, who seized power in 1999, is a key U.S. ally in the war on terror in neighboring Afghanistan and border regions where Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding.
The Afghan government has yet to convince Pakistan that a return to peace and stability in the border regions will not spark renewed irredentism among local Pashtuns over the disputed Durand Line.
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And with respect to Pakistan and safe havens there, Afghanistan and the United States and Pakistan all have an interest in reducing the threat of extremism in some of these border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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"Through these three programmes, the European Union is providing Northern Ireland with real opportunities to develop its economic potential and competitiveness, to improve the situation of its border regions, and to make further progress towards a peaceful society, " she said.
The regime was afraid that opposition groups would take to the streets again, as they had done in 1988 and 2007, maybe in conjunction with the many armed groups, including among the Karen and Kachin minorities, fighting ethnic insurgencies in the border regions.
In addition, you've got the Taliban and al Qaeda operating in the FATA and these border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and what we haven't seen is the kind of concerted effort to root out those safe havens that would ultimately make our mission successful.
Terrorists trained in Afghanistan and the tribal regions along the Pakistani border have killed innocent civilians in both of our countries.
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But through the acknowledged presence of their special forces and advisors, as well as other military elements, they directly and indirectly continue to dominate Cambodia (except in some regions near the Thai border).
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Most of the strikes have been concentrated in South and, especially, North Waziristan, mountainous tribal regions on the Afghan border that shelter militant groups friendly with Pakistan but who are attacking U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Some problems are largely beyond Mr Shevardnadze's control, such as the private fief of Ajaria in the south, the two regions on the northern border which have struggled, with Russian help, to secede, and the Chechen rebels who use northern Georgia as a haven of last resort.
To root out those militants, the Pakistanis first tried the hammer approach in their tribal regions along the Afghan border in 2004 with a number of military operations that were essentially defeats for the Pakistani army, which is geared for land wars with India, rather than effective counterinsurgency campaigns.
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Mahmood Shah, a Peshawar-based defense analyst who spent years working for military intelligence in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions that skirt the Afghanistan border.
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