Roadside bomb kills 7 soldiers in Pakistani tribal region – Top Nation/World Headlines – San Luis Obispo
Suspected Taliban militants set off a roadside bomb that killed seven paramilitary soldiers Saturday in a rugged tribal region of northwestern Pakistan as government jets pounded Taliban hide-outs elsewhere and killed at least 15 fighters, officials said.
Pakistan’s president, meanwhile, vowed to push on with an army offensive in a key insurgent stronghold until all the militants are wiped out.
The paramilitary soldiers were traveling through the Khyber region, famed for the pass that is the main route for ferrying supplies to U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, when the bomb went off, said local official Ghulam Farooq Khan. The men died before they reached a hospital.
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A Pakistani soldier speaks on a field radio as a Mi-17 helicopter lands on top of Kund mountain near Kotkai village in South Waziristan Pakistan on Thursday Oct. 29, 2009.The Pakistani military took a group of foreign and local journalists Thursday to see parts of the battle zone in South Waziristan, the tribal region where Islamabad is waging an offensive against Taliban fighters believed to be behind most suicide bombings in the country. The remote region also is a suspected safe haven for al-Qaida fighters.
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Internally displaced Pakistanis, who fled their homes in Waziristan due to fighting between Pakistani security forces and militants, arrive in Bannu, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009.
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Soldiers of Pakistan para-military force arrest a suspect militant during a crack down operation in Pakistani tribal area of Khyber near Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. According to official, at least 32 suspected people were arrested by the security forces as a result of search operations at Shakas area against the militants.
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That attack came as Pakistani jets bombed three hide-outs of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud in the Orkazai tribal region, killing at least eight militants and wounding several others, intelligence officials said. Another airstrike, about 43 miles (70 kilometers) from the first one and near the Afghan border, killed seven militants in the Kurram tribal region, the officials said.
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