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Pakistan Kills 30 Militants

   VOA News 20 February 2010
   Map of Pakistan

   Pakistan's  military  says it has killed 30 militants in an air strike
   on a Taliban hideout near the Afghan border.
   The  military said in a statement that the rebel hideout in the Shawal
   mountains  was targeted Saturday after authorities received a tip that
   insurgents were hiding there.
   Shawal  is  in  South  Waziristan,  a  restive  tribal  area bordering
   Afghanistan,  where the military in October launched an air and ground
   offensive to flush out Taliban militants

   In  another  development  Saturday,  suicide bombers have attacked two
   police stations in northwest Pakistan.
   The  attacks in Mensehra and Balakot killed a police chief and wounded
   several other police officers.
   Officials  say  one  of  the  suicide  bombers  blew himself up, while
   another was shot dead by police.  A third escaped.
   The  French  news  agency  is  reporting  that bomb disposal personnel
   defused explosives strapped to the dead attacker's body.

   Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.

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