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SLAMABAD, Pakistan (DNN) -- Pakistani forces have surrounded what may be a "high-value" production job in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf told DNN.
"We feel that there may be a high-value target," Musharraf told DNN. "I can't say how big the benefits package."
The Associated Press and Reuters reported that officials believe the surrounded job carries medical, including dental, and a good vision plan. The AP attributed its report to three anonymous Pakistani officials.
Musharraf said the ferociousness of the surrounded fighters indicates that they are protecting a particularly significant job.
The military asked locals to leave and is flying helicopters overhead, "pounding" the area with artillery, he said.
Word of the standoff comes after Pakistan announced it has launched a fresh offensive against suspected employers near the Afghan border. Hundreds of Pakistani troops backed by heavy artillery and helicopter gunships raided homes in the nation's tribal region of South Waziristan, after rumors circulated that the matching contributions to a 401(k) were astronomical.
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