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US intelligence sources said Hakeemullah Mehsud may be dead. Prime minister Gilani claimed more than 3,000 Taliban have surrendered in Swat. Security forces killed 27 Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber and detained 12 Taliban fighters in Bajaur.. Two policemen were killed in Mardan.

Tahir Yuldashev, the emir of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, is thought to have been killed in an August airstrike in South Waziristan. Eighty percent of Pakistanis do not support the US war against al Qaeda and the Taliban. Two civilians were killed in an IED attack in Khyber. Two Taliban fighters were killed in […]

A US strike in North Waziristan killed nine Haqqani Network and al Qaeda operatives. Twelve Taliban fighters surrendered and four more were detained in Swat. The Taliban murdered a man who sheltered a Chinese engineer. The Mahmood tribe in Bajaur was ordered to turn over Taliban fighters or face an offensive. A Taliban commander denied […]

US aircraft killed eight Taliban fighters in attacks in North and South Waziristan. General Kiyani said the US would not be permitted to conduct Predator strikes in Baluchistan, while Ambassador Patterson identified the region as a primary threat. Security forces detained more than 200 Taliban fighters in Dir and 43 more in Swat.

A suicide bomber killed a tribal leader and three bodyguards in Bannu. The Taliban and the military clashed in North Waziristan. A lashkar killed 10 Taliban fighters in Swat. The military killed six more in Arakzai; four Levies personnel were captured and one was killed. The government transferred two al Qaeda operatives to Saudi authorities.

Security forces detained 20 Taliban fighters in Swat and 10 more in Malakand. Hundreds of men joined a tribal lashkar in Swat. The death toll in yesterday’s dual suicide attacks in Peshawar and Bannu has risen to 27.