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| Taleban announce key withdrawal | |
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| The Taleban say they will withdraw from a Pakistani district where their consolidation of power this week has caused deep concern in the US. | |
| A Taleban spokesman said commander Maulana Fazlullah had issued the order for fighters to pull back from the north-western district of Buner. | |
| The US has accused officials in Pakistan of abdicating to the Taleban. | |
| The Taleban have agreed a peace deal bringing Sharia law to some districts in return for ending their insurgency. | |
| Taleban spokesman Muslim Khan said: "Our leader has ordered that Taleban should immediately be called back from Buner." | |
| A delegation from the Taleban and the cleric who negotiated the peace deal, Sufi Muhammad, is on its way to Buner to oversee the withdrawal. | |
| The news followed a meeting of government officials in North West Frontier Province to discuss the faltering peace deal. | |
| Ahead of the meeting provincial spokesman Iftikhar Hussain had said: "Those who took arms must lay them down. Those who went to Buner, they must get out from Buner. | |
| "This is the only way, and we are asking them for the last time." |