longwarjournal.org - 2/23/2009
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The Swat Taliban released a senior Swat district official and six of his Frontier Corps bodyguards after kidnapping them as they travelled to the town of Mingora. The government freed three Taliban fighters who were detained in the provincial capital of Peshawar. The incident was a violation of ...
adnkronos.com - 2/20/2009
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adnkronos.com —
Islamabad, 19 Feb. (AKI) - Tuba Sahaab is
taking on the Taliban. But the 11-year-old Pakistani girl...
is no militant and her weapons are simply her words. She lives on the outskirts of Islamabad and writes poems about the pain and suffering of children ...
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Pakistan: Child poet takes on the Taliban - Adnkronos ...
swampland.blogs.time.com - 2/17/2009
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This is terrible news. The Pakistani government has
essentially given control of the Swat Valley to the...
Taliban. It means that the Taliban are now 100 miles from Islamabad and the military center of Rawalpindi. It also means that Pakistan's ...
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Bill Roggio: Taliban exchange Swat official for prisoners
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... Monday, 23 February 2009 The Pakistani district official kidnapped yesterday was released in exchange for three Taliban prisoners; Taliban wanted to teach government a lesson. read ...
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