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KARACHI, APR 4
Sixty foreign militants linked to al-Qaeda were killed and 30 others captured by the local tribesmen in a fresh fighting in Pakistan's restive tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
Hussain Khan, a government official in South Waziristan tribal agency, said that around 60 foreign militants were killed by the tribal 'Lashkar' or forces, which had been formed by tribal elders to oust the untras from their region.
Thirty foreign ultras were also captured by the local tribesmen.
"Fresh fighting broke out after the tribal groups started their operation against the foreign miliants in south Waziristan but they resisted from their bunkers," Khan said.
"However, from what we know some 40 of them have surrendered to the tribal forces," he said.
The tribal forces launched offensive against the foreign militants, most of them Uzbeks, after they attacked the home of a local reporter of a provincial Urdu newspaper in south Waziristan. They killed his father and brother and abducted four of his relatives.
The reporter, Din Mohammad, was safe as had gone hiding, he said.
Foreign militants, who are taking refuge in Pakistan's tribal areas after the US and coalition forces invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban government, were said to be unhappy with his reports about their activities.
In recent times, reporters working in this restive tribal areas have to face threat to their lives.
The government has said that the conflict between the local tribals and the foreign militants is proof that its policy of negotiating peace deals with different tribes in south and north Waziristan was finally paying off.
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