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Five Pakistani troops, 25 militants killed in clashes

AFP, Peshawar
Dozens ofTaliban rebels attacked a checkpost in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley yesterday, sparking fierce clashes that left five troops and 25 militants dead, the military said.
Authorities imposed a round-the-clock curfew after the latest fighting in the former tourist region, which has brought a two-month-old peace deal between the government and the Islamists to the brink of collapse.
The Taliban movement warned that it would launch suicide attacks across the country if the military failed to halt the operation against followers of extremist Muslim cleric Maulana Fazlullah.
A Pakistani military statement said up to 70 militants attempted to storm a security checkpost in the
troubled Matta district of Swat on Wednesday morning.
"The attack was successfully repulsed resulting in the death of 25 miscreants and many injured," the statement said.
l\vo Pakistani army officers and three soldiers were "martyred" in the fighting, it added.
Chief military spokesman major general Athar Abbas said an important Taliban commander, Tor Mullah, a close associate of Fazlullah, was slain in the fighting.
Up to 60 militants later entered the main bazaar in Matta and warned people to close their shops, the army statement said. Security forces reinforced the local police station and the rebels fled, it said.
Local army spokesman Major Mohammad Farooq told AFP that the clashes lasted between Inui
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and five hours. He said authorities imposed a curfew on the entire valley "until further orders."
wo Sep-aratelyrnrilitanis 1 burned down a girls' school in Swat and blew up a hostel in Pakistan’s only ski resort in the nearby town of Malam Jabba. which had been damaged in an attack last month, local officials said.
The fighting also came a day after militants abducted 30 police and paramilitary soldiers in Sw'at.
The army said that in view of the increased hostile activities of the miscreants, security forces have been ordered to take appropriate measures to counter their actions effectively."