FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, Oct 27

Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:20am EDT
 
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Oct 27 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Pakistan at 0415 GMT on Tuesday.

BAJAUR - Taliban militants shot dead the head of a pro-government ethnic Pashtun tribal militia, or lashkar, in Khar, the main town in the Bajaur tribal region on the Afghan border, a government official said.

MOHMAND - Security forces killed six Taliban in a fighting in the Mohmand tribal region on the Afghan border after the militants attacked a security post killing two soldiers and wounding three, a paramilitary spokesman said.

A landmine blast hit a paramilitary force convoy in a different part of Mohmand, wounding three soldiers, the spokesman said. (For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see:here an) (Compiled by Islamabad Bureau; Editing by Robert Birsel)






 

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