Pakistan sends helicopters, drones to end desert standoff; 58 dead
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QUETTA: Pakistan's security forces used drones and helicopters to wrest control of a southwestern town from separatist insurgents after a three-day battle, police said on Wednesday (Feb 4), as the death toll in the weekend's violence rose to 58. Saturday's wave of coordinated attacks by the separatist Baloch Liberation Army brought Pakistan's largest province to a near standstill as security forces exchanged fire with insurgents in more than a dozen places, killing 197 militants. "I thought the
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