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• Aug. 27: Pakistani paramilitary troops stand guard on a street to ensure security in Karachi, Pakistan. Security forces clashed with militants at either end of Pakistan's wild tribal belt on Wednesday, killing 19 enemy fighters and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said.
• Aug. 26: An armored vehicles move forward, during the Pakistan army's Zarb-e-Hadeed exercise, which started at Khairpur Tamewali, some 62 miles southeast of Multan, Pakistan. The exercise Zarb-e-Hadeed is part of a routine training, aimed at enhancing professional competence of the troops.
• Aug. 26: A supporter of Jamhoori Watan Party chant slogans in front of a portrait of their slain leader Nawab Akbar Bugti during a rally to mark the second death anniversary of Bugti in Karachi, Pakistan. Bugti, a rebel tribal chief, was killed when his cave hide-out collapsed during a military operation in 2006. Bugti had led a violent campaign to pressure the central government to give his impoverished province a larger share of money for natural resources extracted from it.
• Aug. 26: Pakistan's paramilitary soldiers patrol on the vicinity of the residence of Lynne Tracy, a U.S. diplomat in Peshawar, Pakistan. Gunmen opened fire on the top U.S. diplomat early Tuesday as she left for work in her armored vehicle, police and embassy officials said. No one was killed.
• Aug. 26: An Afghan refugee family sits on a truck and waits to leave for their homeland at a UNHCR center on outskirt of Peshawar, Pakistan. The United Nations refugee agency-assisted voluntary return of registered Afghans from Pakistan crossed the 200,000 mark for the current year over the weekend, with the majority of Afghans going home from Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, a UNHCR official said.