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December 29, 2008

Pakistan Redeploys Troops to Indian Border
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Pakistan has redeployed thousands of troops from its western border with
Afghanistan to its border with India in the east. Pakistani officials
told the New York Times that they had received intelligence that
suggested India could soon launch an attack inside Pakistan. The
Pakistani troops have been reportedly sent near the boundary that
separates Pakistani- and Indian-controlled Kashmir, as well to the area
surrounding Lahore about twenty miles from the border with India.
Tension between the two nuclear-armed rivals has been mounting since
last month’s deadly attack in Mumbai, which India blamed on Pakistani
militants.



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