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Pakistan troops kill 15 Taliban: security official
AFP - Sunday, January 18
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - - Pakistani paramilitary forces killed at least 15 Taliban militants in intense gunbattles in a northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan, a security official said Sunday.
One soldier was also killed in the fighting, which broke out Saturday as paramilitary forces were clearing a key road linking the Bajaur tribal district with provincial capital Peshawar, the official said.
"Fifteen militants were killed in a successful raid by security forces on a militant stronghold in Darwazgai area of Mohmand Agency," the official said.
"One security forces personnel embraced martyrdom in the encounter," he said, adding that the militants fired mortars at troops from their hide-outs.
The toll could not be confirmed independently as the area is out of bounds due to the military operation.
The Pakistani military has said more than 1,500 rebels have been killed and hundreds more captured since August in Bajaur, which borders Mohmand.
Pakistan's lawless tribal areas have been wracked by violence since hundreds of Taliban and Al-Qaeda rebels sought refuge in the region after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan toppled the hardline Taliban regime in late 2001.
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