Pakistan tightens noose around Al-Qaeda militants near Afghan border: army
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Pakistani troops have hemmed in Al-Qaeda-linked foreign fighters and their local allies hiding in tribal border regions with a series of military assaults, a top Pakistani general said.
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Pakistani troops yesterday threw a tight cordon around troubled South Waziristan district near the Afghan border a day after forces smashed a suspected al-Qaida training camp there and killed some 50 fighters, residents said.
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Pakistani troops backed by artillery and aircraft have attacked suspected al-Qaida hideouts near the border with Afghanistan. Military officials say the attack early Saturday was launched near Shakai, a remote
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Pakistani security forces tightened their noose around a besieged mosque in Islamabad on Sunday after President Pervez Musharraf told militants barricaded inside to surrender or die.
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Al Qaeda has become entrenched in a remote corner of Pakistan, and the United States fears a military strike could spawn new militant activity in the country, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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The White House is pressuring Pakistan to crack down on al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives in the lawless border area with Afghanistan
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Pakistani pacts with pro-Taliban  militants on the Afghan border have facilitated attacks on  foreign troops in Afghanistan and allowed the militants to  expand influence in Pakistan, a think-tank said.
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Four Al-Qaeda-linked foreign fighters were killed and two captured by Pakistani forces as the army launched another attempt to dislodge militants from the country's remote tribal region, the military said.
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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan  - At least 17 suspected pro-Taliban militants were killed and 10 wounded in what intelligence officials described as "an explosion" in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border on Tuesday.
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A plan that could authorize more aggressive operations follows concern that Al Qaeda and the Taliban hope to destabilize the Pakistani government, officials said.
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The Pakistani army is deploying more than 2,000 troops in a remote northwestern valley to counter Islamist militants trying to enforce Taliban-style laws there, the military said on Wednesday.
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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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PESHAWAR (Pakistan) - Militants holding two Chinese engineers in a rugged tribal area near the Afghan border have threatened to kill them unless Pakistan releases Al-Qaeda detainees, a security official said yesterday.
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WANA, Pakistan - Pakistan says it has Islamic militants in the rugged tribal belt bordering Afghanistan on the run after a protracted and hard-fought military campaign.
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Pakistani security forces killed three suspected Islamist militants in a clash in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Saturday, the military said.
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Pakistani forces have cleared militant strongholds from three areas in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border and 40 militants and eight soldiers have been killed in fighting, the military said on Thursday.
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Militants kill at least seven Pakistani soldiers in a tribal area near the Afghan border, the military says.