Pakistani Tribal Leaders Call for More Democracy, Annihilation of Taliban

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ISLAMABAD - Hundreds of tribesmen from Pakistan's semiautonomous regions near the Afghan border ended a rare tribal council meeting Saturday with a declaration calling for the army to crush the Taliban.

The meeting, held in the northwestern city of Peshawar, was called by an umbrella group of aid organizations and political parties in an effort to bring together people from the violence- battered region.

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Pakistani Tribal Leaders Call for More Democracy, Annihilation of Taliban

Participants called for the Pakistani military to escalate its offensive against the network of Islamist militants across the tribal regions, dismissing the army'...

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