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India-Pakistan |
Anti-Taliban fighter killed in Bajaur blast |
2012-01-02 |
[Dawn] A kaboom in Pakistain's northwestern tribal belt on Sunday killed an anti-Taliban militiaman and maimed three others, an official said. The injured were two other anti-Taliban fighters and a passer-by, senior government official Faaz Mohammad told AFP. The remote-controlled bomb hit a shop in Salarzai town, about 20 kilometres northeast of Khar, the main city in Bajaur, a part of the lawless tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. "The bomb destroyed the shop and killed one anti-Taliban fighter," the official said. Bajaur was the scene of a major anti-militant operation in August 2008 and in February 2009 and the military said the area had been secured. |
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