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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 05 > Taliban tighten hold on Swat

Taliban tighten hold on Swat

By Pamela Constable / The Bulletin
May 5, 2009

ISLAMABAD — Taliban forces tightened their grip on Pakistan’s Swat region Monday and continued resisting the military’s efforts to dislodge them from neighboring Buner, bringing a fragile peace accord closer to collapse and the volatile northwest region nearer to....

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