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COM 25 mins ago Dawn.com will follow developments for women voting in South Waziristan. On Friday, the Taliban shura (council) allowed women voters from the tribal region's Ahmadzai Wazirs-dominated area to exercise their right. The shura's condition,
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Ali Wazir, 37, is a candidate for NA-41 South Waziristan, but is forced to campaign in Rawalpindi 822km away from his volatile hometown Wana, from where his people had to flee due to the Taliban's influence. For Ali Wazir, campaigning in Rawalpindi
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Unidentified motorcyclists shot dead two persons, including a former member of a peace committee, and injured another here on Wednesday. Police and local people said that Gul Mohammad Shah, former member of a peace committee, was standing with a
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With politicians joining them in a show of solidarity, they cited the long-running military operation and the lack of government support as key concerns. The leader of the group, advocate Sherpao Khan, said that in the five years since its
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Salim Mehsud, from Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal agency, was first displaced by conflict. For over three years he lived at a camp in the town of Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Province, after the military launched an operation against
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Three security men and four children were injured in two separate incidents in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Wednesday. Officials said that a khasadar, Khan Akbar, and two personnel of Mehsud Scouts naib-subedar Ashraf and sepoy Asad were injured
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S Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud says his organisation could be open to talks with Islamabad, but has poured scorn on the idea his men would give up their guns. Mehsud, who has a $US5 million ($A4.84 million) US government bounty on his head, said
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Pro-Uzbek militant commander Maulvi Abbas was among three killed in a bomb blast on Friday in South Waziristan's Wana bazaar, officials and local residents confirmed. "According to our information, a bomb at the office of local Taliban commander
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Faction and sub-factions within militant forces are battling each other and opening up "new threats and new risks of even greater violence", said a Pakistani daily Monday. An editorial in the News International said it was a fallacy to think of the
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The Mehsud elders have requested the political administration to extend the deadline, set for expulsion of the tribe from South Waziristan Agency. Scores of Mehsud elders submitted a written application with political agent of South Waziristan Agency
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