President Karzai said Pakistan would get a major role in any upcoming negotiations with the Taliban. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in southern Afghanistan. Coalition and Afghan forces killed a Taliban fighter and captured a Taliban facilitator, a sub-commander, and 12 Taliban fighters in Helmand, Nimroz, Kandahar, Wardak, and Paktika. ISAF denied an airstrike in Kandahar killed 16 civilians.
