ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 3 — Helicopters carried U.S. and Afghan commandos many miles into Pakistan on Wednesday to stage the first U.S. ground attack against a Taliban target inside the country, Pakistani officials said. At least 20 local people died in the raid, according to the officials.
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MANGOORA: At least seven people including two Taliban commanders and two children have been killed in fresh shelling of the Security Forces here on Thursday.Sources told that forces pounded shells on different areas on Thursday morning, causing death of two key Taliban commanders in Kozabandi area of Tehsil Kabbal.Two commanders were reportedly brothers named commander Younus and Zia-ur-Rehman. Meanwhile, bomb fell at the house of a person, Ilyas, which killed five persons including his wife and two children. Similarly, missile also fell at the house of former deputy nazim of union council, Siraj Khan which injured his mother and sister. They were immediately taken to Saidu Sharif hospital. Siraj Khan told Geo News that several houses were destroyed in shelling and added most of the houses were lying vacant.
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KARACHI: A commercial building located at I.I. Chandigarh road, has caught fire early Thursday here in Karachi.Fire tenders and snorkels have been dispatched to the area where as no loss of life was reported.Fire is said to be of low category, fire fighters said.
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American forces launched a raid inside Pakistan Wednesday, a senior U.S. military official said, in the first known U.S. ground assault in Pakistan against a suspected Taliban haven. The government condemned the attack, saying it killed at least 15 people.
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Pakistan accused international forces in Afghanistan of killing civilians in an unusual cross-border ground and air attack Wednesday that officials warned could undermine cooperation in the war on terror.
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An angry Pakistan summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest against a raid on a Pakistani border village in which officials said 20 people, including women and children were killed, an official said on Thursday.
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U.S. military forces landed at a compound in Pakistan to battle targets linked to recent attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a senior U.S. official confirmed Wednesday.
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Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, gave a fuller account on Wednesday of his contacts with Asif Ali Zardari, a potential president of Pakistan .
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The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday defended himself against criticism from State Department officials who suggested he had had unauthorized contacts in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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IslamabadIslamic fasting has numerous benefits including physical and mental, as it not only helps breaking addictions to harmful substances,
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