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One group, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – succeeded in attacking a number of military installations, including the army’s headquarters in Rawalpindi, and briefly occupied the district of Swat, only 60 miles from Islamabad, the capital.

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There are more buildings that are empty or in disrepair than occupied and in use.

How else to explain the cultural space occupied by Sarah Palin?

The Iraqis: yes, they got rid of Saddam Hussein, but when they saw their land occupied by foreign forces they felt very sad, they felt that their dignity had suffered.

It occupied the area of approximately one million square kilometers, covering what is now Pakistan, Northwestern India and parts of Afghanistan and Iran.

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