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The Pakistani army has driven the Taliban out of the Swat Valley and recaptured Mingora, the one sizable town there.(The Week)(Brief article)
The Pakistani army has driven the Taliban out of the Swat Valley and recaptured Mingora, the one sizable town there. Some Taliban leaders have been killed, and others have fled to the mountains of Waziristan, where they may still be pursued. Critics liked to maintain that the Pakistani army was trained only for warfare with India, but it evidently has adapted well to this insurgency, losing few men and killing some 1,200 Taliban fighters (out of an estimated 5,000). The Taliban has made the same mistakes in Pakistan as it did in ...
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