Al-Qaida members killed in clash at border
Some low-level al-Qaida members were among a dozen militant fighters killed by an artillery and helicopter attack on two compounds near the Afghan border, officials said today, raising the toll from the strike a day earlier from 10.
Fresh violence broke out today in Pakistan’s south-western Baluchistan province, where suspected tribesmen fired at a paramilitary patrol, triggering a gunfight in which one assailant was killed, police said.
