Source: International Herald Tribune
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Pakistani security forces recovered two U.N. employees after a gunbattle Monday with their captors in a militant stronghold near the Afghan border, an official said.
One paramilitary soldier was killed and four were wounded in the clash in Khyber tribal region, said Mohammed Iqbal, a local government official. The two employees […]

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Source: The News
DUBAI: Pakistan’s envoy to Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin, who went missing from Khyber agency, appeared in a video aired by an Arab news channel in which he said the Taliban were holding him.
The kidnapped Pakistani ambassador appealed government to accept demands of the Taliban so that he and his two associates could be released.
The […]

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