Dozens Killed As Taliban, Security Forces Clash In Orakzai
April 23 2010
Pakistani security forces say they battled Taliban fighters on Thursday in the northwestern Orakzai agency, the Daily Times (Pakistan) reports.
Twenty-two militants and two paramilitary soldiers were reported killed in the heavy fighting. Two other Frontier Corps soldiers were wounded, according to government officials.
Fighting broke out when militants attacked a patrol in a village near the border with Khyber agency, a government official in Orakzai's main town of Kalaya...
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