The information minister for the Northwest Frontier Province said talks with the Taliban are still underway. A Taliban leader in Khyber agency ordered Baitullah Mehsud’s fighters to leave the agency. The Taliban said the government should hold talks with Mullah Fazlullah, not Sufi Mohammed, to restore peace in Swat. The Taliban torched a girls’ school and bombed 17 shops in Swat. Three shops were bombed in Bajaur agency.
