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Forty militants, 3 troops, dead in Pakistan assault
10 Jul 2007 04:03:44 GMT
Source: Reuters
ISLAMABAD, July 10 (Reuters) - Forty militants and three Pakistani soliders have been killed in an assault on Tuesday by security forces on a radical mosque compound in the capital, the military said.

The operation was still on going on, a spokesman said.

No civilians, apart from militants, were known to have been killed, a spokesman said.
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Qari Hanif Jallandari, secretary general of Pakistan's alliance of madrasas or Islamic religious schools speaks in Multan July 13, 2007. Several thousand Pakistani Islamists rallied on Friday to denounce the government for ordering an army crackdown on a radical mosque in the capital, Islamabad.



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