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Ansarul Muhajideen killed nine Frontier Corps troops in an IED attack in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed a member of a pro-government militia in Swat. The government denied it is conducting peace talks with the Taliban.

Four Taliban fighters and two Pakistani soldiers were killed after Taliban fighters attacked their camp in South Waziristan. Sixty “militants” from Swat, Dir, Swabi, Malakand, and Nowshera have been “rehabilitated.” Security forces seized 500 kg of explosives in Khyber.

The Taliban killed four people, including two policemen, and torched two NATO fuel tankers in Baluchistan. Eleven people were killed in sectarian fighting in Islamabad. The Taliban “expelled” Asmatullah Muawiya for welcoming negotiations with the government; Muawiya said they did not have the authority to do so.

Ghulam Jan Wazi, a Taliban commander who sheltered al Qaeda and other foreign terrorists, was killed along with four fighters in a bombing in South Waziristan. The Taliban killed a soldier and a civilian in a bombing in Karachi. Asmatullah Muawiya, a Taliban and al Qaeda commander, said he welcomes negotiations with the government.

The US Treasury added to its terrorism blacklist senior al Qaeda official Umar Siddique Kathio Azmarai; and the Jamia Taleem-Ul-Quran-Wal-Hadith Madrassa (the “Ganj Madrassa”), a school in Peshawar that serves as a training and funding center for al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban. Pakistani authorities arrested at least two terrorists during a raid on an […]

Four “gunmen” killed 10 people in an attack during Eid prayers at a mosque in Quetta. No group has claimed credit for the attack. Security guards killed a would-be suicide bomber outside of a Shia mosque in Islamabad.

A suicide bomber killed 30 people, including at least 21 policemen, in an attack at a funeral for a police officer at a mosque in Quetta. Four senior police officials were among those killed in the blast.

The Taliban assaulted a prison in Dera Ismail Khan and freed more than 200 prisoners and killed six security personnel. Eight “militants” and two soldiers were killed in Darra Adam Khel. A policeman was killed during a militant attack on polio vaccination workers in Pishin.

The US killed four “Arab” and four Taliban fighters in a drone strike in the Shawal Valley in North Waziristan. The military killed “an al Qaeda-linked foreign militant” and five fighters as they attacked a checkpoint in Thall.

Twin explosions carried out by two suicide bombers on motorcycles at a market and a taxi stand in Parachinar, the capital of Kurram tribal agency, killed at least 48 people and wounded 200 more. A spokesman claimed the attack for Ansarul Mujahideen, and warned of more attacks on the Shia community. Two people were killed […]