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FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, Jan 8
08 Jan 2009 10:22:01 GMT
Source: Reuters
Jan 8 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Pakistan at 1000 GMT on Thursday.

KHUZDAR - Separatist militants detonated a roadside bomb as an army vehicle passed in Khuzdar district, southwestern Baluchistan, killing a passer-by and wounding two people including a paramilitary, said senior police official Ghulam Ali Chisti.

MIRANSHAH - Militants shot dead a senior government official and his bodyguard in an ambush in Razmak district in North Waziristan, a known hotbed of support for al Qaeda and Taliban militants, intelligence officials said. (Compiled by Islamabad bureau; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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