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Pakistan ‘kills 700 Taliban militants’.  That the latest claim anyway. We can only hope it’s true.

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Pakistan’s senior government security official, Rehman Malik, claimed that up to 700 Taliban militants have been killed in fighting in the past four days.

By Isambard Wilkinson in Islamabad
Last Updated: 12:29PM BST 11 May 2009

The claim made by Mr Malik, the head of the interior ministry, could not be confirmed and exceeded that given by the military on Sunday by at least 200.
Mr Malik’s announcement came as fighting continued in the Swat Valley and the northeast of Pakistan faced a worsening refugee crisis.

“The operation will continue until the last Talib,” said Mr Malik. “We haven’t given them a chance. They are on the run. They were not expecting such an offensive.”
The army’s senior spokesman said on Sunday that so far some 400 to 500 militants had died. But Mr Malik also said that the figure of 700, was expected to “rapidly rise”.

Official figures given for the number of enemy killed are notoriously exaggerated in Pakistan.
In a television interview aired on Sunday, the US Central Command chief, Gen David Petraeus, said Pakistan’s actions in the next few weeks could prove “pivotal” to its future.

“Certainly the next few weeks will be very important in this effort to roll back, if you will, this existential threat, a true threat to Pakistan’s very existence that has been posed by the Pakistani Taliban,” the general said.
The army says 12,000 to 15,000 troops in Swat face 4,000 to 5,000 militants, including small numbers of foreigners and hardened fighters from the South Waziristan tribal region.

The UN said today that 360,600 displaced people had registered in camps and centres since May 2 after fleeing Swat and neighbouring Dir and Buner districts.
Some 500,000 people had already registered as displaced due to offensives over the past year.

An official in Swat said he was confined to his station due to heavy fighting but added that he could see a decapitated body lying outside along a road where a clash between military forces and the Taliban yesterday left six militants dead.
Elsewhere in Pakistan’s northwest on Monday, a suicide bomber exploded his vehicle at a checkpoint, killing 13 people in the town of Darra Adam Khel.

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