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The Taliban took credit for a suicide attack that killed seven people in Charsadda. The military killed 13 Taliban fighters in Swat and two more in Bajaur, and detained a senior Taliban suicide bomber recruiter in Islamabad. The leader of the Millat-e-Islamia was killed in Khairpur; the killing sparked riots in Karachi and Sindh.

Seventeen of Mullah Nazir’s fighters were killed in an ambush in South Waziristan; Turkistan Bhittani claimed Nazir was among those killed. The military killed 15 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan and six more in Swat. Twenty-two Taliban fighters surrendered in Dir and 14 TNSM fighters and a senior leader surrendered in Buner.

A suicide bomber killed five civilians in Swat. The Taliban killed one soldier during an ambush on a military convoy in North Waziristan and wounded 11 more in a rocket attack on a base, and destroyed three NATO tankers at a terminal in Pishin in Baluchistan. The military killed eight Taliban fighters in Swat.

The Taliban killed two tribal leaders in Bajaur and a tribal leader in North Waziristan and wounded a paramilitary troop in a rocket attack in Landi Kotal. The military killed 12 Taliban fighters in attacks on camps in Kurram and Arakzai.

Clashes between Baitullah Mehsud’s forces and the Abdullah Mehsud Group in Tank reportedly led to more than 70 Taliban fighters killed. Two children were killed in an IED blast in Bajaur. Security forces detained 46 suspected Taliban fighters in Swat.

A US airstrike in South Waziristan killed 14 Taliban fighters. Twenty-one fighters were killed in a Taliban turf war in Arakzai. Security forces killed 17 Taliban fighters in Khyber. The Taliban killed three people in a rocket attack in Peshawar and a tribal elder in Mohmand, and torched nine schools in Buner and five more […]