But he said there had been "routine maintenance of our fortifications" in the area where the fighting occurred last Sunday, near the village of Charonda.

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Acting on intelligence information, Sultan said the soldiers began a routine search operation in the South Waziristan region -- a culturally conservative tribal area in Pakistan's semi-autonomous northwestern border region.

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