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Dozens Of Soldiers Missing After Taliban Attack

June 17 2010

Pakistan

The Pakistani army says it is searching for more than 35 paramilitaries missing after a Monday attack by the Afghan Taliban on a border checkpost between Pakistan's Mohmand and Bajaur tribal agencies, Press Trust International (India) reports.

The provincial police chief of Afghanistan's Kunar province said nine Pakistani militiamen were apprehended by the Afghan army while fleeing the attack.

The Taliban said it killed seven soldiers in the attack.

Forty troops were...

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