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Attack On Pakistani Army Spotlights Punjab Province

Oct. 12, 2009
Extremists staged audacious attacks in Pakistan over the weekend. By the time one siege ended at Army Headquarters in Rawalpindi, some 19 people had been killed, half of them militants who had taken more than 40 hostages. The attack has trained attention on Punjab province as a terrorist training...
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