Pakistan 'secret agents killed'

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Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 16:16 GMT 17:16 UK

Pakistan 'secret agents killed'
By Haroon Rashid
BBC News, Peshawar

Unidentified gunmen have shot dead four officials from Pakistan's secretive
ISI intelligence agency in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials
say.

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No group has said it carried out the attack, a day after local tribes signed
a peace deal with the government.

The dead included an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) assistant director,
Mohammad Sadiq, alias Major Hamza.

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In the deal signed on Monday, local tribes pledged not to shelter al-Qaeda
or Taleban militants.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6500701.stm

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1. That "deal" didn't last very long. nt