Pakistan

A US strike in South Waziristan killed 10 al Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Clashes between MQM supporters and Pashtuns resulted in 25 killed in Karachi; the government issued a shoot-on-sight order. The Taliban remains in control of Dir. The military took the town of Daggar in Buner and claimed 50 Taliban fighters were killed. The Taliban ambushed a police vehicle on the Peshawar-Islamabad highway.

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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