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Pakistan arrests over 100 suspected militants ISLAMABAD, Sunday (AFP) Pakistan has rounded up more than 100 people linked to outlawed Islamic militant groups in a new crackdown after two bomb attacks which killed more than 70 people within a week, police said Saturday. "The swoop is focused at the moment in Punjab province and is aimed at shaking up the clandestine network of the banned militant sectarian groups," a senior police official told AFP. The arrests followed Thursday's car bomb attack at a rally of banned Millat-e-Islamia formerly known as Sipah-e-Sahaba of Pakistan in the city of Multan to observe the first death anniversary of the assassinated extremist Sunni Muslim leader Azam Tariq. Forty one people were killed and nearly 100 others wounded in the attack. Meanwhile two Chinese engineers were kidnapped in a remote Pakistani tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, officials said. |
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