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Asia Crisis

FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, Sept. 21

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Sept 21 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Pakistan at 1000 GMT on Monday.

BUNER - Police in North West Frontier Province killed a militant planning a suicide attack, said provincial police chief Malik Naveed Khan. Two provincial government ministers in the area may have been the target, Khan said.

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN - Militants killed a soldier and wounded five in an overnight attack on a checkpost in the South Waziristan ethnic Pashtun tribal region on the Afghan border, intelligence officials said.

A militant spokesman said several soldiers were killed in the attack on two military posts. (For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see:

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) (Compiled by Islamabad bureau; Editing by Robert Birsel)

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