AUTHOR javno100



PAKISTAN

JANUARY 6 2009 10:19h

FACTBOX-Security Developments In Pakistan, Jan 6

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Eleven tribal elders were missing in the Mohmand region on the Afghan border after they went for talks with Taliban militants.

Following are security developments in Pakistan at 0545 GMT on Tuesday.

SWAT - Militants in northwestern Swat Valley beheaded five captured policemen and paramilitary soldiers and dumped their bodies by a road, a police officer said.

MOHMAND - Eleven tribal elders were missing in the Mohmand region on the Afghan border after they went for talks with Taliban militants, a government official said, adding he suspected the militants might have taken the elders hostage.

Security forces clashed with militants who attacked a paramilitary checkpost in another part of Mohmand on Monday night and one militant was killed and seven wounded, another government official said.

MIRANSHAH - Militants in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border shot and killed two people accused of spying for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, a government official and residents said.

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