Stepped-Up Fighting In Border Region

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Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)
January 26, 2008 Pakistan

ISLAMABAD — Fighting spread in Pakistan's volatile borderlands on Friday as the military pounded hideouts of Taliban militants who had hijacked ammunition supply trucks, killing up to 30 suspected rebels, the army said.
Two paramilitary troops were killed and 10 wounded in the clashes around Dara Adam Khel, a town on a key strategic route linking Pakistan's northwestern frontier with the rest of the country.
While the Taliban number relatively few in the town, their ability to intercept a military-supply convoy has worrying implications. The route connects Peshawar — the army's regional headquarters just 25 miles away — with the battlefields of Waziristan, a lawless region regarded as a stronghold for Taliban and al-Qaida.
 
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