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Security forces on Monday critically wounded and captured a top Taliban leader, along with six of his security guards, during an operation in Balochistan.
| Five, six, somewhere around there anyway... |
The FC and the Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF) captured Mansoor Dadullah, brother of slain Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah, and six of his accomplices when they were discovered to be hiding in the Pak-Afghan border town of Kili Gwal Ilamilzai.
| Hiding in a madrassah, in fact... |
Sources said that when the security forces had surrounded the Taliban hideout from all four sides, the militants sent a message requesting they be allowed to escape from the area peacefully.
| "We don't want no truck widda law! Turn yer backs an' we're outta here!" |
Upon receiving a negative reply, the Taliban exchanged fire with the security forces,
| [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!] "Take dat, coppers!" |
ending the clash only after Dadullah was critically injured.
"Aaaargh! My brisket!"
"Da boss! Dey got da boss!" |
The AP, however, quoted army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas as saying that the militants had been captured while they were trying to cross Afghanistan’s border into Pakistan. “We have captured Mansoor Dadullah along with five other people in Balochistan,” Caretaker Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz Khan told Reuters.
| "Really. It's not like they lived in Pakistain or something! They just showed up!" |
A senior military official told AP that Dadullah died of his wounds on the way to hospital, but Abbas denied the claim.
| "He ain't dead! He's just pinin' for the Khyber Pass!" |
Sources said Dadullah was out of danger, but one of security guards had died en route to Quetta for further treatment and investigation.
| So he might live to fight and run away another day. That's rather surprising. |
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