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n. - A combative aggressiveness.

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  • At the same time, al Shabaab has grown from a ragtag militancy to a determined foe.
  • But what it is facing in recent years is indigenous militancy, which is more dreadful, more painful.
  • If they departed from government it would not have a significant impact on Pakistan's war on militancy, which is led by the army.
  • It is the absence of a national strategy to deal with growing militancy which is being felt today ever so acutely.
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