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Paramilitary soldiers patrol a road during a curfew as security forces launched an offensive against militants in the Khyber tribal agency on the outskirts of Peshawar December 31, 2008. Pakistani army helicopters attacked militants along the Khyber Pass on Wednesday while tanks rumbled in to secure the vital supply link for Western forces in land-locked Afghanistan. REUTERS/Ali Imam (PAKISTAN)