Pakistan News And Discussion-13

[Naresh]

[center]<b><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Pakistani Militants Behead 4 Officers</span></b>[/center]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>SWAT, Pakistan (AP) — militants reportedly captured and beheaded three militiamen and a police officer Friday</b> while government troops and helicopter gunships attacked the nearby stronghold of a radical cleric in northwestern Pakistan.

The fighting came a day after a suicide bombing killed 20 people in another part of Swat district in the intensifying conflict between the U.S.-allied government of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and pro-Taliban forces in the volatile tribal region along the Afghan border.

<b>After killing the four security officers, the militants displayed the severed heads in Imam Dheri village near Swat, said Badshah Gul Wazir, home secretary for the volatile North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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