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Pakistani Taliban move into new area; drone kills 3
Wed Apr 8, 2009 11:16am EDT
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MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban have moved into a new area in Pakistan, clashing with villagers and police in a mountain valley about 100 km (60 miles) from the capital, police and district officials said on Wednesday.
Separately, a Pakistani Taliban commander said the Pakistani military and the United States were colluding in U.S. drone aircraft attacks and the militants would take their war to Islamabad in response.
Surging militant violence across Pakistan is reviving Western concerns about the stability of its nuclear-armed ally. Pakistan is crucial to U.S. efforts to stabilize Afghanistan.
Alarmed by deteriorating security in Afghanistan, the United States has since last year stepped up drone strikes in Pakistan.
In the latest drone strike, three militants were killed when a drone fired a missile at their vehicle in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Wednesday, a security agency official and residents said.
Pakistan objects to the drone strikes, calling them a violation of its sovereignty that complicates its effort to fight militancy.
U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, were in Pakistan for talks on security strategy this week.
In a development that will deepen the West's concerns, scores of Taliban have moved into Buner district northwest of Islamabad from the Swat valley, where authorities struck a peace pact in February aimed at ending violence.
"About 20 vehicles carrying Taliban entered Buner on Monday and started moving around the bazaar and streets," said senior police officer Israr Bacha.
Villagers formed a militia, known as a lashkar, to confront the Taliban and eight of the insurgents were killed in a clash on Tuesday, police said.
Two villagers and three policemen were also killed.
"People don't like the Taliban," Ghulam Mustafa, deputy chief of Buner, told Reuters by telephone.
Muslim Khan, a Taliban spokesman in Swat, was defiant.
"What law stops us going there?" Khan said. "Our people will go there and stay there as long as they want."
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