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Attacks kill 16 in Pakistan, spy agency targeted
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-11-13 21:34 Taliban and al-Qaida fighters are waging a war against the Pakistani government because they deem it un-Islamic and are angry about its alliance with the United States. The insurgency began in earnest in 2007, and attacks have spiked since the run-up to the offensive in South Waziristan.
Militants have also targeted convoys in Pakistan delivering supplies to soldiers in Afghanistan. Attackers fired rockets at a group of tankers near the southwestern city of Quetta on Friday that were delivering fuel to US and NATO troops. One driver was killed and five tankers were torched, said local police chief Bedar Ali Magsi. About 80 percent of all nonessential supplies to Western forces in Afghanistan are trucked through Pakistan after landing at the Arabian Sea port of Karachi. NATO and US officials say the attacks do not affect their operations.
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