Pakistan

A suicide bomber killed five Pakistanis while attempting to assassinate the chief of the Awami National Party in Charsadda. Baitullah Mehsud visited several areas in South Waziristan. The UN ordered its staff to send children home after declaring Islamabad unsafe.

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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