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India-Pakistan
TTP attack on Salala post repulsed; 20 militants killed
2012-06-07
[Dawn] The Salala checkpost in 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 Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
Agency, which was attacked by NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
forces in November last year, severely straining Pakistain-US relations, again came under attack on Monday night, but this time by snuffies belonging to the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain.

According to security officials, the attack was repulsed and 20 Islamic fascisti were killed and several others injured. At least 20 snuffies were killed and several others injured.

According to them, one soldier was killed and three others injured in the exchange of fire.

But the TTP rejected security forces' claim about casualties of snuffies and said only one bad turban had been killed and three injured. The front man Ihsanullah Ihsan said by phone that six soldiers had been killed in the attack and eight injured.
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