Word: mengal
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...have rocketed the provincial capital, Quetta. In response, President Pervez Musharraf has sent 4,500 paramilitary troops, backed by 20 tanks and nine helicopter gunships, to Baluchistan to try to restore order. It will be a tricky mission. "This could be our last battle," Baluch tribal chieftain Attaullah Khan Mengal told Time. "At the end of it, either their soldiers will be standing alive, or we will...
...Nawab says he is taking the woman's violation personally, and he can muster 4,000 armed men to back him up. Other leaders from the Mengal and Marri tribes have vowed to join him in his campaign for justice...
...chafed under Islamabad's rule, accusing the government of exploiting their mineral wealth and giving little back. In the past, successive Islamabad administrations could ignore the region because the Baluch chieftains usually were too busy feuding with each other to trifle with outsiders. These days, they are united, says Mengal: "The resistance will be in all corners of Baluchistan...
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