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Army will purge Swat of Taliban: ISPR

* Prime minister, COAS discuss security issues

Daily Times Monitor

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: ISPR spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas has said the army will complete its mission of purging the Swat district of Taliban, a private TV channel reported.

According to the channel, he said the security forces would not allow the Taliban to return to the Swat valley after they have been pushed out.

Meanwhile, Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Kayani called on Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at the Prime Minister’s House on Thursday and discussed “the overall security situation of the country with particular reference to Swat”, according to a brief press statement by the Prime Minister’s House.

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