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Kidnapped Pakistani Students Rescued

HeadlineJun 02, 2009

Pakistani soldiers have rescued scores of students and staff from a military-run college who were abducted by Taliban militants in the northwest of the country on Monday. Pakistani officials said seventy-one students and nine staff members had been rescued. Meanwhile, a court in Pakistan has ordered the release of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the leader of an Islamic charity accused of being a front for a group tied to the Mumbai attacks that killed more than 170 people.

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