Pakistan

The military killed 10 Taliban in helicopter gunship strikes in Swat. Maulana Fazlullah’s fighters are guarding his madrassa just one day after the military attacked the complex in Swat. The leader of the MQM political party called for peace negotiations in Swat and Waziristan. The military dropped pamphlets urging “foreign guests” to leave the tribal areas and calling on the tribal people to join government forces in North Waziristan.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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