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Nov 1st, 2009 - Boston

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani soldiers closed in on two major Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan yesterday, officials said, as government jets pounded insurgent hide-outs and the prime minister said the country had no choice but to defeat the militants.

"We are at war,'' Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said at a news conference in the city of Peshawar, where a car bombing a few days ago killed more than 115 people. "Our civil leadership, our military leadership, and political leadership . . . we are on the same page that we have to fight the militancy. We do not have any other option because their intentions are to take over'' the country.

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