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By Yuka Tachibana, NBC News Producer
KABUL – Afghan President Hamid Karzai was “surprised and shocked at the huge amount” of secret U.S. military documents on the Afghanistan war published on WikiLeaks earlier this week, according to his spokesman Waheed Omar.
But he wasn’t shocked by the information that was revealed in the leaked [...]

ISLAMABAD – “I just heard it over the news and had to do something. I just wanted to help.” That was the resounding refrain heard in the densely forested hills surrounding Islamabad where a plane crashed, killing all 152 passengers Wednesday.
Without thinking, people just went to the crash scene. Ordinary people, dressed in [...]