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Only 2 Pakistanis among 26 dead in Afghanistan
 Afghan troops killed 13 suspected Taliban militants including two Pakistani nationals on Friday, taking the death toll from violence in Afghanistan in two days to 26, officials said. The militants were killed in an army sweep of an area around Tirin Kot city, the capital of restive Uruzgan province which has seen several counter-insurgency operations in the past weeks. Among the 13 bodies on the site, two are Pakistani nationals. They have Pakistani ID cards, said General Rahmatullah Raufi, the Afghan army commander for southern Afghanistan.Uruzgan, where 1,400 Dutch troops are deploying to be part of a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)-led force that is moving into southern Afghanistan, has seen some intense battles in recent weeks. Suspected militants on a motorbike gunned down two Afghan aid workers, while a provincial security chief and a senior police officer were also killed on the same day, officials said. A third aid worker was wounded in Thursdays attack in northern Balkh province, said Sher Jahn Durani, spokesman for the provincial police chief. The militants opened fire on the three workers after they left in a car from a village in Chimtal district where they were helping farmers, Durani said. It wasnt immediately clear who was behind the attack. The workers were believed to be from the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance organisation that works in the health, agriculture and education sectors. Posted by: Fred 2006-06-10 |
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