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CHECKING MILITANTS: Tribals keep guard in Wana in South Waziristan in this recent photo.
Islamabad: Hitting out at people doubting Pakistan's commitment to the war on terror, President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday for the first time acknowledged that the army supported local tribesmen in their fighting with Al-Qaeda linked foreign militants which left around 300 ultras dead in the restive tribal belt. Gen. Musharraf said it was a result of the political initiatives taken by the authorities in the restive South Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan, that local tribesmen so far killed around 300 foreign militants, mostly Uzbeks, and were driving foreigners out. ``The people of South Waziristan now have risen against the foreigners. They have killed about 300 of them, and they got support from the Pakistan army. They asked for support,'' he told a conference here. Foreign militants most of them belonging to Arabic or Central Asian states had taken shelter in Waziristan after being driven out of Afghanistan by the U.S.-led coalition after the 9/11 attack. ``It shows our policy of striking peace deals with local tribesmen has been effective. The local tribesmen have now risen up against these foreign militants,'' Gen. Musharraf said. Pakistan's commitment to the war on terror was questioned by several countries of the international coalition against terror when it struck peace deals with local tribsemen in the South and North Waziristan areas since 2005.— PTI
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