Pakistan

The prime minister said no promise has been made to tackle the Taliban in North Waziristan. Security forces detained seven Lashkar-e-Jhangvi members for plotting to attack the prime minister of Pakistan. The Taliban bombed a shrine in Landikotal and released a video of a professor kidnapped in September.

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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