The military said 11 Taliban fighters and four soldiers were killed as troops secured Peochar in Swat. The Taliban ordered politicians in the Malakand Division to resign their offices or their families would be killed. Jamaat-ud-Dawa is running relief camps in the Malakand Division.
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A US airstrike killed eight Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in South Waziristan. Pakistani commandos were airdropped into the Taliban controlled Peochar valley in Swat. The military killed 30 Taliban fighters in Dir; the Taliban claimed only 12 fighters have been killed since the operation began. The Taliban attacked a NATO truck terminal in Peshawar […]
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The military claimed 52 Taliban fighters were killed during fighting in Swat; US officials called the military casualty numbers “wildly exaggerated.” President Zardari said the Army will defeat the Taliban with the people™s support; only 45 percent of Pakistanis support the military operation in the northwest. Two more Army divisions may be deployed to the […]
US officials are skeptical of the high Taliban casualty reports as the Interior Minister claimed 700 Taliban fighters have been killed in four days of fighting in Swat.
The military claimed 150 Taliban fighters were killed in Shangla and 60 more were killed in Swat. The Taliban destroyed a headquarters of the Dir Levies and killed one Malakand Levies officer and captured three others. The military claimed 26 Taliban were killed and another 14 were wounded after troops repelled an assault in Mohmand, […]
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The military claimed 55 Taliban fighters were killed in Swat, 25 were killed in Dir, 18 were killed after attacking a convoy in South Waziristan, and five more were killed in Peshawar. A US strike targeted Baitullah Mehsud’s fighters in South Waziristan. President Zardari said the Swat offensive “will not be withdrawn.”
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The military claimed 143 Taliban fighters and seven troops were killed in Swat and another 15 Taliban fighters were killed in Dir. More than one million people have fled the Malakand region. The deputy inspector general of police in Kohat has been kidnapped. The Taliban bombed a shrine in Peshawar.
The military claimed more than 140 Taliban fighters and three commanders along with seven soldiers were killed during fighting in Swat.
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The president said Pakistan will fight the Taliban until the “situation returns to normal”; the prime minister said they will fight until the Taliban is “eliminated.” The Rangers have been deployed in Mianwali and Bhakkar. Fifty-five Taliban and nine soldiers were killed in Swat; 15 soldiers were captured in Dir. The Taliban killed five tribesmen […]