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| NW Pakistan Clashes Intensify; Peace Deals at Risk, Taliban Says |
| 2008-08-01 |
| Clashes between insurgents and Pakistani troops escalated Wednesday in the country's fractious northwest as Taliban leaders threatened to withdraw their support for peace deals brokered this year with Pakistan's new government. Accounts of casualties from the skirmishes in Pakistan's Swat Valley, near the Afghan border, varied widely and could not be independently verified. A local military spokesman said that five Pakistani soldiers and at least 38 insurgents were killed, but a spokesman for a pro-Taliban group disputed that tally, saying that only three of its fighters had been slain. It was the third consecutive day of violence between pro-Taliban extremists and government troops in the formerly serene Swat Valley. After skirmishes erupted near the town of Matta, Pakistani security forces began enforcing a 24-hour curfew in the area, a military spokesman said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Give them an inch... Believe it or not: there ARE Seculars in Pakistan. We haven't played that card yet. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-08-01 05:13 |