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Pakistan police battle Taliban

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Police in Pakistan are cracking down on the Taliban in the country's most populous province, Punjab.

A number of Taliban cells have been broken up, and key figures have been arrested - including a self-confessed bomb-maker, and a would-be suicide bomber.

Orla Guerin reports from Lahore.

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