They want Pakistan to be central to any peace deal Mr Karzai may strike with insurgent groups, including Hizb-e-Islami and the Haqqani network.

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Mr Karimov has insisted that his troops were not ordered to open fire and blamed the violence on Hizb ut-Tahrir, a banned Islamist group.

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"From the birth of the Lebanese state, Tripoli has resisted being a part of Lebanon, " said Ahmad al QasQas, a media representative for the Lebanese chapter of Hizb al-Tahrir, a pan-Arab Islamist party with aspirations for one nation spanning the region under the rule of an emir.

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