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Afghanistan

Forty Militants Killed In Pakistan Near Afghan Border

An Afghan soldier guards the site of a market destroyed in fighting between pro-Taliban militants and security forces in the tribal area of North Waziristan in early March (file photo) (epa)

April 6, 2006 -- At least 40 militants have died in heavy clashes in a tribal region near the Afghan border in the past couple of days, Pakistani officials report.

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April 06, 2006

The army earlier reported that 16 militants and four soldiers died in the fighting, after the Pakistani army launched a counterattack on April 5 after an overnight attack by militants sympathetic to the Taliban.

Pakistani forces have been involved in intense fighting in North Waziristan for the past month.

(Reuters, AP, dpa)

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