From McClatchy Washington:ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Violence engulfed Pakistan's northwest Thursday, as anti-government insurgents staged suicide bombings against local counterinsurgents, killing at least 20. Meanwhile, the government said it had killed 15 insurgents in an aerial bombardment.
Coming shortly after the presidential victory of Barack Obama, who's promised to toughen U.S. policy in this region, the latest clashes underline Pakistan's awkward position: caught up in a major conflict of its own while absorbing the spillover from war in neighboring Afghanistan, many of whose fighters have taken sanctuary in Pakistan's tribal belt.
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