Information About Incident 50964-98999-249472 in Dir Pakistan

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Separately, militants from Afghanistan side once again attacked positions of local lashkar (tribal militia) in border areas of Upper Dir District.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Afghanistan Upper Dir
• Matched District: Dir
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: militants from Afghanistan side
• Subject: positions of local lashkar ( tribal militia ) in border areas of Upper Dir District

Context

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Separately, militants from Afghanistan side once again attacked positions of local lashkar (tribal militia) in border areas of Upper Dir District. However, residents of Saro Kallay said that the attack was repulsed successfully. According to the residents of Nusrat Darra and Shahteez, militants have entrenched in a forest along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and are looking for opportunity to launch attacks against the people of these villages.

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