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Originally Posted by g jones
On November 14, 2007, senior Pakistan Army officials said that from 2001 till November 14, 2007, at least 966 military men were killed and 2,259 others were injured. On October 23, 2008, the Pakistani Army confirmed that a total of 1,400 soldiers and paramilitaries had been killed since 2001. An additional 220 policemen were killed in fighting in 2007 and 2008. Some have speculated that the unofficial number of Pakistani soldiers killed in action to be somewhere around 3,000 by the late 2006
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a comendable sacrifice considering that their country is fighting a civil war . Seems the country has progressd from the days when Clement Attlee (Labour PM 1945-51) installed Ali Jinna as a secularist Prime Minister
Just wonder if the numbers are of British "ethnic" minority youth from North East Lancashire who are members of Her Majestys forces is proportinate to the rest of the general population ?
not throwing any stones , just a fact of life here in the US that both the Army has a higher percentage of African Americans , and the Marine corps has a higher percentage of Hispanic Americans than the general population .......though the causualty figures of dead and maimed from Iraq and Afghanistan don't reflect this .