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  • Militants seize shrine in Pakistan (named after renowned Pashtun freedom fighter Sahib Turangzai)

    07/30/2007 10:23:31 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 7 replies · 379+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/30/07 | Bashirullah Khan - ap
    MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan - Pro-Taliban militants seized control of a shrine in northwestern Pakistan and renamed it after Islamabad's Red Mosque, while 10 people died in the latest violence near the Afghan border, officials said Monday. About 70 pro-Taliban militants occupied the shrine of renowned Pashtun freedom fighter Sahib Turangzai and its accompanying mosque in the town of Lakarai in Mohmand tribal region on Sunday, a spokesman for the militants and a local government official said. The militants declared their support for the radical leaders of the Red Mosque that was stormed by Pakistan's army this month after its clerics...