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Two pro-govt tribal elders killed in Khar
 [Pak Daily Times] Militants armed with guns and rockets killed two members of a pro-government militia and maimed two coppers in a tribal district on the Afghanistan border, officials said Friday. The hard boy attack in Bajaur came just days after US officials said they hoped to open peace talks with the Afghan Taliban in Doha, capital of the Gulf state of Qatar. About a dozen snuffies attacked the homes of two tribal elders near Khar, the main town in Bajaur, late Thursday, administration official Abdul Haseeb said. The two elders, who were members of a pro-government tribal militia, were killed and two tribal coppers were maimed, Haseeb told AFP. A security official in the area confirmed the attack and the casualties. "Their targets were the tribal elders," he said. Pakistain has for years been fighting homegrown Taliban snuffies in its northwestern border areas with Afghanistan. A US-led NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... combat mission across the border is due to withdraw next year after a 12-year Afghan Taliban insurgency. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-22 |
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