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Pakistani Taliban: Army kills '59 militants'
Pakistan's military says it has killed 59 militants in ground assaults and air strikes on Taliban units in areas near the border with Afghanistan.
The operations come days after the Taliban killed 141 people at a school in Peshawar, mostly children.
The military has stepped up its offensive against the insurgents in the provinces of the Khyber agency and North Waziristan.
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"There has to be a military solution, we have to eliminate them first, we have to break their backs," he said. "Total elimination is what the people of Pakistan want."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30545200
The operations come days after the Taliban killed 141 people at a school in Peshawar, mostly children.
The military has stepped up its offensive against the insurgents in the provinces of the Khyber agency and North Waziristan.
...
"There has to be a military solution, we have to eliminate them first, we have to break their backs," he said. "Total elimination is what the people of Pakistan want."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30545200
Whether 'total elimination' would be possible, I doubt; but I can see why they'd try at the moment.