Pakistan

Pervez Musharraf was elected to a third term as president as the opposition sat out of the voting. The Supreme Court must still decide on petitions filed by the opposition. The Taliban killed one soldier and wounded 19 in an IED ambush of a military convoy 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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