Pakistan

Taliban suicide bombers killed 34 Pakistanis in Rawalpindi and a policeman in Lahore. The military said 12 Taliban fighters have been killed and the town of Kanigoram has been secured in South Waziristan. The top military spokesman said India is backing the Taliban. The government offered rewards for the captures of 14 senior leaders in the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.

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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