Pakistan battles 'kill 21 militants, soldier'

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Source: AFP

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — At least 21 militants and a soldier were killed Friday during an ongoing military offensive designed to eliminate the Taliban from northwest Pakistan, military officials said.

Sixteen militants were killed by security forces in Maidan, the home town of pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Mohammad in Lower Dir, the paramilitary Frontier Corps said without giving any other details.

A daily military update about the operation said five militants and one soldier were killed during search and clearance operations in Swat, the neighbouring northwest district where the Taliban first rose up in 2007.

A Taliban spokesman on Thursday denied claims that Maulana Fazlullah, the architect of a brutal uprising in Swat to enforce sharia law, had been wounded and threatened to unleash renewed holy war.



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[winter999]

1. Live by the Sword. Die by the Sword.

[cosmicone]

2. We'll all have a laugh when

Pakistan claims more militants dead than their entire population while suffering only minor casualties.

This is all just theater to keep American aid flowing. Substantively, Pakistan is doing nothing.