Pak assault on Mehsud hideout
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WANA: Pakistani security forces used helicopter gunships, mortars and artillery on Wednesday to pound a mountainous area near the Afghan border where a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, blamed for masterminding the kidnapping of two Chinese, is believed
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Around 300 Taliban insurgents captured a remote district in western Afghanistan after storming its small capital and forcing out government forces, a provincial governor said.
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Pakistani security forces were readying for a final assault on the extremist Red Mosque Wednesday.
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Pakistani villagers said gunship  helicopters launched strikes on Sunday in an area regarded as a  stronghold of a Taliban commander linked with the assassination  of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
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Armed tribesmen attacked suspected Uzbek militants in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, triggering a battle in which 15 people were killed, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Islamic militants in Pakistan attacked a fort near the Afghan border Tuesday, one of two clashes with government forces that left seven troops and 37 fighters dead, the army said. In Europe, President Pervez Musharraf said border attacks were "pinpricks" that his government...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 10 -- Pakistani commandos stormed the Red Mosque at dawn Tuesday expecting to quickly subdue militants who had laid siege to the complex for eight days. But after more than 10 hours, dozens were dead, intense room-to-room fighting continued and the elite government fight...
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Pakistani soldiers launch an offensive  against suspected al-Qaeda fighters even as Richard Armitage begins a visit to the region.
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PAKISTANI troops backed by artillery and aircraft attacked two suspected terrorist hideouts near the rugged Afghan border yesterday, killing and wounding a number of militants, Pakistan army and security officials said.
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The Afghan government and Western officials are seeking to capitalize on a recent attack against the entrenched governor of the western province of Herat by removing
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Description: The Pakistani military&#39;s continuing search for al Qaeda militants along the border with Afghanistan. Pakistani warplanes and helicopter gunships attacked a suspected terrorist training camp, and
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Pakistani troops on Friday combed mountains in the volatile tribal stronghold of an Al-Qaeda-linked militant blamed by Islamabad and Washington for the killing of Benazir Bhutto.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 18 -- The Pakistani army fought pitched battles with militants Wednesday in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan following an insurgent assault that killed 17 troops.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistani soldiers were fanning out across mountains near the Afghan border on Friday in search of Al Qaeda-linked militant chief Abdullah Mehsud, after commandos killed five of his men who had been holding two Chinese engineers hostage, AP
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Pakistan's army tightens a cordon around a suspected al-Qaeda base after an air raid in which it says 50 militants died.
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Pakistani Muslim clerics said on Monday they were making a last-ditch bid to avert an assault on militants holed up in a mosque after authorities issued what they said was a last warning for them to surrender.
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Pro-Taleban rebels abduct 12 soldiers in a new raid in north-west Pakistan, where scores more are being held.