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Article: PAKISTAN: A GUIDED MISSILE KILLS AN UNGUIDED ONE BY IKRAM SEHGAL.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- June 21, 2004
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At about 9:45 pm on Thursday June 17, 2004, a guided missile killed tribal militant and Al-Qaeda supporter Nek Mohammad in his hideout in village Dhok only 4 kms from Wana, a long way away from Shakai and Baghar, the two places where major military operation had been launched by the Armed Forces a few days earlier to flush out foreign militants. Virtually unknown till a few months ago, Islamic militant Nek Mohammad gained notoriety (or fame, depending on your point of view) by resisting troops engaged in hunting Al-Qaeda and Talibaan suspects in South Waziristan adjacent to the borders with Afghanistan. Articulate and brash, the angry young tribal was accused of sheltering ...