ISLAMABAD: Militants in a restive tribal area of northwest Pakistan attacked an army checkpost and killed a soldier just hours after the government cancelled a round of talks with the Taliban, a security official said Tuesday.
The peace talks are in crisis two weeks after they began following a claim from a Taliban faction on Sunday that they had executed 23 soldiers who were kidnapped in June 2010.
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