Militants capture Pakistani fort; 47 dead
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WANA, Pakistan  - Hundreds of militants in northwest Pakistan attacked and captured a paramilitary fort early on Wednesday and seven soldiers and 40 militants were killed, the military said.
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WANA, Pakistan  - The Pakistani army fired mortar  bombs and artillery shells at suspected mountain hideouts of al  Qaeda-linked militants in a remote tribal region on Friday, but  there were no details of casualties, witnesses said.
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Pakistani forces captured 40 militants in South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, a military spokesman said on Saturday, a day after up to 90 militants were killed in two battles.
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CHAGMALAI, Pakistan -- Pakistani special forces attacked kidnappers holding two Chinese engineers near the Afghan border yesterday, killing all five of the Al Qaeda-linked militants, who were followers of a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner. One of the hostages was killed in the raid, while the other survived.
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In an embarrassing battlefield defeat for Pakistan's army, Islamic extremists attacked and seized a small fort near the Afghan border, leaving at least 22 soldiers dead or missing.
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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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Pakistani forces recaptured a  road tunnel leading to the volatile tribal belt on the Afghan  border on Sunday after killing around two dozen pro-Taliban  militants in a fierce battle, the military 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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Gunmen who took up to 250 Pakistani school children hostage on Monday in a northwestern town freed them all and surrendered to tribal elders, a government spokesman said.
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WANA, Pakistan Pakistani troops threw a tight cordon on Friday around a troubled South Waziristan district near the Afghan border, residents said, a day after government forces smashed a suspected Al Qaeda training camp there and killed about 50 fighters
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Security forces have detained more than  a dozen suspected militants, including some linked to al Qaeda,  after killing Pakistan's most wanted man in a weekend shootout,  intelligence sources said on Tuesday.
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Pro-Taleban rebels abduct 12 soldiers in a new raid in north-west Pakistan, where scores more are being held.
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Pakistani commandos stormed the hideout of Islamic militants in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, freeing one Chinese hostage and killing five of the kidnappers, government officials said.
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Militants took hostage up to 250 Pakistani school children in the northwestern town of Bannu on Monday, the interior minister said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani troops backed by artillery and aircraft attacked two suspected terrorist hideouts near the rugged Afghan border on Saturday, killing and wounding a number of militants, Pakistan army and security officials said.    The attack was launched near Shakai in the South Waziristan tribal region, scene of several military counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida fugitives and renegade tribesmen in the recent months...
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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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PAKISTAN&#39;S army backed by artillery and helicopter gunships demolished some &quot;terrorist hideouts&quot; in an offensive against foreign militants but failed to capture a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of targeting security forces in a tense tribal region