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| Hundreds besiege Upper Dir border area for third day | |
| 2011-06-04 | |
[Dawn] Hundreds of forces of Evil on Friday again besieged a Pak area on the Afghan border, shortly after troops claimed to have regained control after fighting killed 34 people, police said.
Rehman said reinforcements and helicopter gunships had been moved into the Nusrat Darra area in the northwestern Upper Dir district of troubled Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province in order to quell the attack. The area is around 10 kilometres from the Shaltalu checkpost which was destroyed by forces of Evil in two days of intense fighting, killing 28 coppers and six civilians. Police said up to 45 forces of Evil were also killed in those festivities, which started on Wednesday, but the information could not be confirmed independently as the bodies were not left behind on the battlefield. Police earlier Friday told AFP that Shaltalu was under control. "The area is in complete control of our troops. We have started a search operation," Rehman had told AFP. Rahim Gul, another police official at the nearby Barawal cop shoppe, confirmed the latest attack. After the first clash, Pakistain Wednesday conveyed "strong concern" to the Afghan ambassador to Islamabad, calling for "stern action" by Afghan and US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... troops to crack down on forces of Evil in eastern Afghanistan. Shaltalu and Nusrat Darra are surrounded by mountains and forest, about six kilometres from the border with Afghanistan's Kunar province. ... which is right down the road from Chitral... Upper Dir is part of Pakistain's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and borders the region where the military waged a major offensive to put down a local Taliban insurgency in Lower Dir, Buner and Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... in 2009. Thousands of Paks have died in kabooms over the last four years and thousands more soldiers have been killed fighting home-grown cut-thoats. | |
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