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..........They charged Noor as a police informer and started to beat him. The son interfered. It was a long struggle for life. it is known to everybody in the valley that what will happen in the end. The brutal killings and humiliation for the womenfolk before their merciless turn for death it was dark. Nobody to come for help.It seemed all at the end. Yet they are fighting.It was Rukasana make the advantage quite unexpectedly. That turned the future course of events........
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd visits to Afghanistan to spend Remembrance Day with the troops.Australia has about 1,500 soldiers in Afghanistan.Details of Mr Rudd's whereabouts have not been released, but most Australian troops are in southern Uruzgan province training an Afghan army brigade.
A three-day general strike is being held in the Pakistani town of Charsadda following a bombing on Tuesday which killed at least 32 people.Officials now say the attack, which injured 70 others, was probably aimed at the head of police in the district. He had just passed the intersection where the bomb went off.
A British soldier from 4th Battalion The Rifles has been killed in a blast in Afghanistan. Near Sangin in Helmand Province.This death brings the number of UK service personnel killed in Afghanistan since 2001 to 232.
The European Union has demanded India to ensure better cooperation for tackling terrorism, stressing that it is keeping an eye on Pakistan so that the nation does not misuse the help rendered by the EU.
A terrorist was shot dead in a gun fight with security forces in Manipur’s Imphal West district Wednesday, police here said.
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UK soldier dies in Helmand

November 9, 2009-16.45
            Kabul:A British soldier from 4th Battalion The Rifles has been killed in a blast in Afghanistan. Near Sangin in Helmand Province.This death brings the number of UK service personnel killed in Afghanistan since 2001 to 232.
            This is the second death to be announced on Remembrance Sunday, after a soldier from the 2nd Battalion, The Rifles, died on Saturday.He was also killed by a blast near Sangin.
            Lieutenant Colonel David Wakefield, spokesman for Task Force Helmand, said the latest soldier to be killed was from 3 Rifles Battle Group.On Tuesday five soldiers were shot dead by an Afghan policeman they were training. Two other men died in separate explosions in Helmand.The spate of casualties forced Gordon Brown to make a speech on Friday defending Britain's involvement in the conflict.
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