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Collective funeral of 42 martyred soldiers held |
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Mardan—Collective funeral of
42 soldiers who died in a suicide attack at a military training
camp in Dargai on Wednesday, was held Thursday here at Punjab Regimental
Centre. Senior Army
officials besides thousands of mourners attended the funeral in tears.
40 martyred soldiers
belonged to Punjab and NWFP, equally >> >>
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Tamil Tigers kill 25 Sri Lankan sailors
JAFFNA—Sri Lankan separatist rebels clashed with government navy and
air forces Thursday
off the northern Jaffna peninsula, with rebels claiming they killed 25
sailors and captured
four others.
The fighting comes as the United Nations denounced the Sri Lankan
military's shelling of a
school Wednesday in a rebel-controlled area in which at least 23 Tamil
civilians were killed
and scores injured.
"The UN condemns in the strongest possible terms the shelling by the
security forces of the government of Sri Lanka on defenseless >>
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34 Taliban dead in Afghan clashes
Five policemen also
die in fighting
Kandahar—Clashes
between insurgents and NATO-led and Afghan
troops have left 34 Taliban and .three
policemen dead in the latest violence in
Afghanistan. Eight policemen, eight Taliban
and three civilians were also wounded during
the fighting in volatile southern provinces
of Kandahar, Zabul and southeastern Khost
which erupted overnight and continued early
Thursday, police said Thursday. Twenty-two
Taliban were killed during a joint
operation by Afghan army, police and NATO
forces late Wednesday in >> >>
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