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We are prepared for a long war: TTP

PESHAWAR: A Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman denied on Tuesday that the army has won a series of battlefield victories in South Waziristan, saying the group was drawing troops into a trap. “We are prepared for a long war,” Azam Tariq told an Associated Press reporter by telephone. “The areas we are withdrawing from, and the ones the army is claiming to have won, are being vacated by us as part of a strategy. The strategy is to lure the army into a trap, and then fight a long war.” Tariq also denied army claims that hundreds of Taliban had been killed, saying only 11 had died so far. ap

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