Thursday, January 17, 2008

Pakistani Troops Abandon Another Afghan Border Outpost After Militant Threats

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistani troops abandoned an outpost near the border with Afghanistan after receiving threats from Islamic militants who a day earlier overran a nearby fort, an intelligence official and a resident said Thursday.

However, the army immediately denied the report that the post at Saklatoi in South Waziristan had been evacuated by dozens of troops.

On Wednesday, militants overran the nearby Sararogha Fort in a pitched nighttime battle that left seven of its garrison dead and a number of troops missing. The British-era fort is one of a string of positions held by the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary along Pakistan's porous border with Afghanistan.....

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