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A Waziri tribal leader said Mullah Nazir would sit out the fighting in South Waziristan; Nazir denied the report. The military killed 23 Taliban in Swat and moved troops to the border of Afghanistan’s Helmand province. The Taliban wounded 37 civilians in a suicide attack on a bus used by a nuclear facility in Rawalpindi, […]

The military said 28 Taliban fighters were killed in Khyber and five more were killed in Bannu. Twenty-eight Taliban fighters and seven tribesmen were killed in Kurram. The Taliban killed a policeman in Hangu and a civilian in Dera Ismail Khan, and bombed a school in Bajaur. A suicide bomber killed himself in Peshawar.

The military killed 18 Taliban fighters in Swat and Dir; the Taliban killed three soldiers in Swat. A lashkar in Dir killed 8 Taliban fighters. Four civilians were killed in a bombing in Kalat. The military relaunched an offensive in Buner.

The Taliban dissolved the North Waziristan peace agreement with the government. The military said it killed 15 Taliban fighters during airstrikes in South Waziristan and eight more in Swat, while a tribal lashkar killed 21 more in Kurram. Sixteen civilians and two policemen were wounded in a bombing in Buner. The military will not deploy […]

Eighteen Taliban fighters and 10 soldiers were killed during a Taliban ambush in North Waziristan. The government issued bounties for Baitullah Mehsud and 10 senior Taliban commanders. The military killed 11 Taliban fighters during airstrikes in South Waziristan. Security forces detained three terrorists in Swat and two more in Charsadda. The Taliban killed two soldiers […]

Security forces killed 16 Taliban fighters and four al Qaeda operatives during airstrikes in South Waziristan, and 13 Taliban fighters in Arakzai, and destroyed the bazaar in Jandola. A lashkar killed five Taliban fighters in Dir. Thirty-three people were killed during sectarian clashes in Kurram. Mullah Fazlullah’s family has been arrested.

The military killed more than 30 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan, Bajaur, and Arakzai. Police killed five Taliban fighters during a shootout in Karachi. Three soldiers and a civilian were killed in an IED attack in North Waziristan. Eight more people were killed in sectarian clashes in Kurram.