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Pakistan says soldiers close in on Taliban bases

October 31, 2009 By The Associated Press TIM SULLIVAN (Associated Press Writer)

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani soldiers closed in on two major Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan on Saturday, officials said, as government jets pounded insurgent hide-outs and the prime minister said the country had no choice but to defeat the militants.

"We are at war," Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told a press conference in the city of Peshawar, where a militant car bombing a few...

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