Forty-three people have been killed in clashes between security forces and militants in a part of Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan where nationalist insurgents have been active.
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US military recruits more ex-cons ... reported on Monday that 33 of the dead were militants and nine were members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps. The report said that more than two dozen militants were captured and a large weapons cache was found. It said security forces were on high alert in Dera Bugti and Sui regions, the hub of Pakistan's largest gas field, where ethnic Baluch nationalists have been waging a campaign for greater autonomy.
(Deutsche Welle)
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