More than 70 Taliban fighters were killed during two separate airstrikes in Makeen in South Waziristan. An Afghan Taliban commander was among those killed. Qari Zianuddin Mehsud, Baitullah’s main tribal rival, was assassinated in Dera Ismail Khan. The Taliban killed three policemen in Peshawar and a paramilitary policeman in Khyber. Security forces detained five Taliban fighters in Karachi.
