Pakistan

Police arrested three members of a suicide bomb cell in Lahore and recovered suicide vests and explosives during the raid. A tribal jirga in Swat blamed Pakistani intelligence for Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah’s rise in power. A politician blamed the government’s failure to recognize peace jirgas and the military offensives in the Waziristans for the rise in violence in Lakki Marwat.

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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