Pakistani internal security (catch all)

[JJackson]

Ok I seem to have now found something.

Pro-Taliban fighters have freed more than 260 Pakistani troops who were kidnapped nearly two weeks ago in the tribal region on the border with Afghanistan.

A local intelligence official said the soldiers were handed over to members of a jirga, or tribal council on Monday.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...91E72CD7B4.htm

[davidbfpo]

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...1-9-2007_pg7_1

Army hostage release deal fails - from Pakistani paper.

davidbfpo
(added more general items on Pakistan elsewhere)

[davidbfpo]

On the BBC News website Pakistani troops clash with militants and the militants execute sixteen captured soldiers, for full story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6999329.stm

This happened last Thursday.

davidbfpo