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Trapped al-Qaeda leader is Uzbek mullah Bin Laden's No 2 is no longer believed cornered in shootout, report Massoud Ansari in Dera Ismail Khan, near Waziristan, and Philip Sherwell in Karachi
The Sunday Telegraph London; 3/21/2004; Massoud Ansari and Philip Sherwell; 787 words
; ... Waziristan included Arabs, Chechens, Afghans, Uzbeks and Chinese Uighurs. "There has been deafening firing every day," Dilawer Khan, a resident of the nearby town of Wana, told The Sunday Telegraph. "Helicopter gunships have been dropping bombs all morning ...
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WORLD IN BRIEF
The Washington Post; 3/20/2006; 458 words
; DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Suspected ... patrol outside the town of Dera Ismail Khan when the bomb, apparently ... wounded, officials said. Dera Ismail Khan is close to the Waziristan ... split in the party. -- From News Services
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Taliban declares a cease-fire in Pakistan
Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 2/7/2008; Ishtiaq Mahsud and Robert H. Reid Associated Press; 787 words
; DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Taliban militants ... open areas in the towns of Dera Ismail Khan and Tank, just outside South ... during a bitter winter. Ismail Khan, a journalist who reports ... achieving its objective?" Khan told Dawn News TV. "It boggles the ...
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No deal yet to free Pakistanis
Oakland Tribune; 9/1/2007; Ishtiaq Mahsud, Associated Press; 579 words
; DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Tribal elders were in talks ... ambulances and killed a bystander, said Mohammed Khan, another area police official. Authorities ... writers Munir Ahmad in Islamabad and Riaz Khan in Peshawar contributed to this report.
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Pakistan
MapQuest.com; 9/16/1998; 117 words
; ... CHINA Chakwal Chaman Chenab R. Dera Ghazi Khan Dera Ismail Khan Dir Faisalabad Ganges R. Gilgit ... Peshawar Qila Safed Quetta Rahimyar Khan Rawalpindi SINDH Sahiwal Sargodha ... TURKMENISTAN Tando Muhammad Khan Thar Desert Turbat Yamuna R ...
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Militants in Pakistan on offenseAt least 49 killed in suicide bombings as a truce unravels
International Herald Tribune; 7/16/2007; Ismail Khan; 513 words
; Ismail Khan International Herald Tribune 07-16-2007 ... police recruitment center in the city of Dera Ismail Khan, mixing in with 200 job candidates hoping ... efforts to stage a suicide attack in Dera Ismail Khan. Three people were arrested in a house ...
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Pakistani troops kill dozens of militants near Afghan border
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 1/19/2008; The Associated Press; 213 words
; DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) - Dozens of Islamic militants died in clashes with Pakistani troops Friday, the army said, amid reports that government ...
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Extremists seize fort in Pakistan
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 1/17/2008; The Associated Press; 245 words
; DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) - In an embarrassing battlefield defeat for Pakistan's army, Islamic extremists attacked and seized a small fort ...
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International briefs
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 2/29/2008; The Associated Press; 453 words
; Blast kills 12 near Pakistan border DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - A pre-dawn explosion demolished a house in Pakistan's wild frontier zone on Thursday, killing up to 12 suspected foreign ...
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INTERNATIONAL: BBC reporter missing.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England); 11/21/2006; 229 words
; ... had kidnapped him. Dilawar Khan Wazir, a reporter aged in ... after leaving Islamabad for Dera Ismail Khan, the city where he lived in ... said on its Urdu-language news web site. It was not immediately ... on Monday before leaving to Dera Ismail Khan. Then a man identifying ...
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