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Pakistan says anti-Taliban offensive succeeding

Oct. 24, 2009
Pakistani leaders say the military offensive in a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border is succeeding and have resolved to press ahead despite a ferocious wave of retaliatory attacks that have killed some 200 people this month. The government statement...
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