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(FILES) In this photograph taken on June 18, 2009, Pakistani troops fire artillery rounds towards the hideouts of the Taliban in Upper Dir. Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban besieged a Pakistani checkpost on the Afghan border for a second day on June 2, 2011, killing 28 police and six civilians in the deadliest fighting for months. A senior police official told AFP that 500 militants, including Afghan Taliban from across the border and Pakistani Taliban, took part in the attack which began before dawn on Wednesday and continued more than 24 hours later. Officials said the militants targeted the Shaltalu checkpoint, surrounded by mountains and forest in the northwestern district of Upper Dir, about six kilometres (four miles) from the border with Afghanistan's Kunar province. Taliban and other Al-Qaeda-linked militants have carved out strongholds on both sides of the porous Afghanistan-Pakistan border, a region that the United States has called one of the most dangerous places on Earth. AFP PHOTO/Z. JAN/FILES
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Upper Dir, PAKISTAN |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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Z. JAN |
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2 Iunie 2011 |
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2300 x 1641 (994.9 KB) |
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