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Twelve children were killed in a bombing in Dir. Swabi police seized 475 kg explosives and detained two men. Police in Sargodha captured an aide to Baitullah Mehsud and five other Taliban fighters. Policemen refused to deploy in Buner. The Taliban blocked a military convoy in Swat, stood up the local Taliban in Buner, and […]

General Kiyani and General Petraeus said the Pakistani Army has the will to fight the Taliban. Some Taliban foces have withdrawn from Buner. Malakand division commissioner Syed Mohammad Javed has been replaced. Taliban fighters fired rockets at an outpost in North Waziristan.

The Islamabad government is deploying Rangers to halt a potential Taliban advance. The Taliban blocked a police deployment in Buner; one policeman was killed. Five NATO fuel trucks were destroyed in Peshawar. Pakistani helicopters killed seven children and two women in Khyber.

The Taliban kidnapped the district coordination officer in Dir, destroyed six NATO fuel tankers outside Peshawar, and said they would remain in Buner until sharia is enforced. Mullah Fazlullah ordered the Taliban to halt patrols in Swat. The military warned that a major operation would begin soon in Arakzai.

The Taliban kidnapped six Frontier Constabulary personnel in Swat, and banned political parties and bombed a boys’ school in Bajaur. Security forces killed three civilians while mortaring Taliban positions in South Waziristan, captured a would-be suicide bomber in Islamabad, and targeted Taliban bases in Jamrud in Khyber.

A US strike on a Taliban camp in South Waziristan killed eight fighters. Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters during airstrikes in Arakzai. A clash between the TNSM and the Taliban killed two. Sufi Mohammed demanded the government withdraw all courts from the Malakand Division.