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India-Pakistan
Security forces attack militant hideouts, kill 18
2011-04-15
[Dawn] Pak troops and paramilitary forces, backed by helicopter gunships and warplanes, targeted Taliban positions in the tribal region of Mohmand
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
near the Afghan border on Thursday, killing at least 18 krazed killers, a regional government official said.

Pakistain's military has recently mounted an offensive in villages bordering Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar in pursuit of forces of Evil linked to al Qaeda and Taliban who want to destabilise the US ally and impose Taliban-style rule.

"We are going after them with full force, using every kind of force. They carry out attacks and other activities from there," Masood Khan, the government official, said.

He said at least 18 forces of Evil were killed and 25 maimed in the fighting.

"The operation is still on," he said.

Militants have killed thousands of people in a campaign of bomb and suicide kabooms in Pakistain in retaliation for government offensives against their bases on the Afghan border.

The United States, which plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in July, wants Pakistain to subdue Taliban fighters who use havens in the rugged tribal areas to launch cross-border attacks.
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