Pakistan

The provincial government of the Northwest Frontier Province has launched a new peace initiative with Mullah Fazlullah’s Taliban forces in Swat. The TNSM, a banned Taliban group, met with a police chief of Malakand agency to negotiate the withdrawal of charges against the group. Seven were killed in rioting in Karachi after an MQM parliamentarian was assaulted when trying to take his oath of office.

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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