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Pakistan's security forces have missed the opportunity to capture al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, a senior government official has said. Rehman Malik, the adviser to Pakistan's prime minister on security affairs, said on Monday they also received a report al-Zawahiri's wife had been in the tribal region of Mohmand. Pakistani forces stormed the location but did not find the couple, he said, without indicating when the raid took place. He said al-Zawahri moved between Mohmand and the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Paktika."We certainly had traced him at one place, but we missed the chance. So he's moving in Mohmand and,...

Excerpt - ISLAMABAD -- (UPDATE) At least 10 Pakistani soldiers were killed and nine were wounded when a missile fired from Afghanistan hit their border post early on Wednesday, security officials told Agence France-Presse. The incident happened after fierce clashes between Pakistani paramilitary troops deployed in the Mohmand tribal region and Afghan forces who claimed the area was part of their territory, the Pakistani officials said. "Sometime after midnight a missile fired from the Afghan side struck our post resulting in the martyrdom of at least 10 soldiers including a commanding officer. Nine soldiers were wounded," one security official said....