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FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, Jan 6
06 Jan 2009 06:09:08 GMT
Source: Reuters
Jan 6 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Pakistan at 0545 GMT on Tuesday.

SWAT - Militants in northwestern Swat Valley beheaded five captured policemen and paramilitary soldiers and dumped their bodies by a road, a police officer said.

MOHMAND - Eleven tribal elders were missing in the Mohmand region on the Afghan border after they went for talks with Taliban militants, a government official said, adding he suspected the militants might have taken the elders hostage.

Security forces clashed with militants who attacked a paramilitary checkpost in another part of Mohmand on Monday night and one militant was killed and seven wounded, another government official said.

MIRANSHAH - Militants in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border shot and killed two people accused of spying for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, a government official and residents said. (Complied by Islamabad bureau; Editing by Robert Birsel)


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