Pakistan

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the Taliban should not attack his province as they both opposed military rule. The Taliban offered a peace deal to Sharif. The military will end the South Waziristan operation on March 30. Security forces killed four Taliban operatives in Swat.

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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