Pakistan

The Army said 29 Taliban fighters and six soldiers were killed in Swat, and 14 Taliban fighters were captured; half of Mingora has been cleared, while the Taliban radio channel has stopped broadcasting. The military killed six Taliban fighters in South Waziristan. Mullah Fazlullah has ordered the Taliban to stop fighting in Mingora, and Sufi Mohammed is calling for a peace agreement. Security forces detained 10 Taliban fighters in Mianwali and two more in Swabi.

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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