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Son of Swat peace negotiator killed

Islamabad: Kifayatullah, son of Sufi Muhammad, a hardline cleric who negotiated the Swat peace deal has been killed in shelling by the security forces at Maidan in Dir district of NWFP, where security forces are conducting operations against the militants — PTI

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