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Pakistan announces full-scale offensive against Islamic extremists (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News) |
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani army said Friday that it had launched “full-scale” operations to wrest back control of Swat valley from Taliban extremists, a dramatic move that if carried through will severely test the military’s ability to run a counterinsurgency operation and the government’s ability to handle a flood of internal refugees.
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