Pakistan

Five soldiers were killed and three were wounded in an ambush in Khyber. The Islamabad suicide bomber is said to hail from Tank. The Taliban have taken over two girls’ schools in Bajaur and are turning them into madrassa. A religious leader was gunned down in Swat. Information Minister Sherry Rehman is said to be on a Taliban hit list.

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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