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Article: Pakistan signs new peace deal with tribal elders of Bajaur.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
- Article date:
- March 26, 2007
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Pakistan signs new peace deal with tribal elders of Bajaur
Karachi, Mar 26 (PTI) Pakistani authorities and pro-Taliban tribal elders of a troubled region bordering Afghanistan today signed a peace deal under which the latter agreed not to provide protection or shelter to foreign militants.
The deal was signed in Bajaur,one of Pakistan's seven federally administered tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, where Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri escaped an airstrike in January 2006.
A government official in Bajaur said the deal was signed after a week long fighting between foreign militants and local tribals in the area that left over 130 people, ...