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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45751)	3/16/2004 3:29:26 PM
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24 terrorists killed, 8 Pakistani troops martyred in new Al-Qaeda hunt operation ISLAMABAD: At least eight Pakistani paramilitary troops martyred and 24 foreign and local militants were believed killed on Tuesday during an operation to hunt Al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects in a tribal territory near the Afghan border, military officials said. "Eight paramilitary soldiers embraced shahadat (martyrdom) and 15 have sustained injuries during the operation", near Wana in South Waziristan tribal territory, Brigadier Mahmood Shah told. "We believe that 24 foreign and local militants have been killed, but so far only two bodies have been recovered," said Shah, the security chief of the federally administrated tribal territory in Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier Province. National security, and territorial integrity would be safeguarded: Musharraf (Updated at 2100 PST) PESHAWAR: President Pervez Musharraf slammed religious militancy as a clash between Pakistani troops and militants believed to back Al-Qaeda in the remote tribal terrain left seven people dead. Speaking to officers of the Peshawar garrison the president reiterated that "security, solidarity and territorial integrity of country would be safeguarded at all costs," an official statement released here by the military said. It said Musharraf spoke about "Pakistan's role in fight against terrorism with particular reference to the operations conducted by Pakistan army against foreign terrorists" in the northwestern tribal area. He said that Islam was a religion of peace and tranquility and "there was no room in this divine religion for killing of innocent people on any pretext." He lauded the army's efforts for carrying out development work in the deeply conservative region. "These uplift works had not only redressed the miseries of the under-privileged people of the tribal area but also brought them to the mainstream of national life," he said, according to the statement. For the first time in Pakistan's history, Musharraf deployed some 70,000 regular troops in the rugged mountainous region after Pakistan joined the US-led war on terror following the September 11 attacks in the United States. The troops have since then launched several operations to flush out Al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives from the area. The troops met stiff resistance in Tuesday's combing operation launched to arrest people accused of harbouring foreign terrorists. The gunfight in the South Waziristan's Azam Warsak town near the Afghan border left four soldiers and three suspected terrorists, one of them a suspected foreigner, military officials said.