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Pakistan says militants pushed back from Peshawar
By RIAZ KHAN,Associated Press Writer AP - 2 hours 46 minutes ago
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Government forces battling al-Qaida and Taliban fighters killed 15 militants Monday in the tribal areas along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, the army said.
In a separate operation, a military official said troops had made progress in securing Peshawar just outside the tribal belt, a strategic city where there has been a spate of attacks on foreigners recently. About 25 suspected militants were killed over two weeks around Peshawar, which sits on a key supply route for Western troops in Afghanistan.
The city is a vital hub for military and relief efforts in Pakistan's northwest.
Pakistan is battling surging attacks by al-Qaida and Taliban militants. Most of them are based in the rugged and lawless tribal region across from Afghanistan, where U.S. and NATO forces are fighting an increasingly tenacious Islamist insurgency. Al-Qaida leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri are believed to be hiding somewhere along the border.
Monday's fighting was in the Swat valley, which was a popular tourist destination before militant violence spread there last year. Six insurgents were wounded in the clashes in several parts of the valley, the army said in a brief statement.
Violence in the region's main city of Peshawar, including the shooting death of an American aid worker earlier this month, has raised concerns the city itself is under threat.
Security forces backed by warplanes and artillery have swept through an area between Peshawar and the border over the last two weeks.
Zafrullah Khan, commander of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary troops in the area, said his force and police have taken control of 22 of 25 targeted villages and would clear the others within a week.
"The militants in these areas have been a big threat to the writ of the government," Khan said. "They have been a main source and origin of the crimes in Peshawar and other cities of the province."
About 25 suspected militants have been killed and 35 arrested during the operation, he said. Some of the detained are foreigners, he said.
Four suicide jackets as well as guns, rockets and grenades were seized, Khan said. The army displayed the seized weaponry for journalists.
In other violence, a bomb exploded late Monday at a Shiite place of worship in Peshawar, wounding five people, said police officer Malik Naveed. Pakistan's militant groups are overwhelmingly Sunni and have frequently targeted minority Shiites, branding them heretics.
Pakistani troops have been battling Taliban militants in Bajur, a nearby tribal region, since August. The fighting has spread to neighboring Mohmand, which borders the villages targeted in the sweep near Peshawar.
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