Muhammad Ali, an Islamabad based security expert, said an army lieutenant colonel and a captain were among those killed in Mir Ali and that Monday's airstrikes were an obvious retaliation, coming within 24 hours of Zardari's warning.
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But Ali said Khan was partly to blame because his legal team kept skipping court hearings as part of a strategy to delay the trial.
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