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The government acceded to further Taliban demands in Swat. Sufi Mohammed asked Mullah Fazlullah to end attacks in Swat and lay down arms. A grenade attack in a mosque in Dera Ismail Khan wounded 25 worshipers. The Taliban bombed a Sufi shrine and CD shops in Mardan, and mortared a police station in Peshawar.

Pakistani officials are accusing India of being behind the Lahore attack; India’s home minister said the accusations are ‘complete rubbish.’ A cricket official present at the attack said security was suspiciously lax. The Taliban bombed a school in Bajaur.

A terrorist assault team attacked a convoy transporting the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. Six police and one civilian were killed, and seven cricketers and 11 policemen were wounded; the attackers escaped. Sixty suspects are being questioned. Sufi Mohammed threatened to end negotiations in Swat, where the Taliban killed two soldiers. Five Shia were […]

A suicide bomber killed six in an attack in a madrassa in the Pishin district in Baluchistan. The Taliban attacked a police checkpoint in Peshawar and mortared a security forces outpost in North Waziristan. The Swat Taliban released a Frontier Corps officer and five of his men. Al Qaeda threatened to attack Saudi businesses and […]

A US strike killed 8 people, including Arabs and Uzbeks, in South Waziristan. The Taliban killed four security personnel and 10 civilians, and captured two policemen in attacks in Mohmand, Khyber, and Arakzai. Seven Taliban were killed and 15 were captured in Kohat.

The military said the Taliban has ‘lost’ in Bajaur and Mohmand. Sufi Mohammed has demanded the establishment of sharia courts by mid-March, while the government has reversed its decision to distribute weapons there. Three aides of Baitullah Mehsud have been detained in Karachi.

The Taliban abducted two Frontier Corps troops after a firefight in Khyber. ‘Unknown gunmen’ fired on a bus transporting Shia school children; the driver was killed and two children were wounded, and five more were kidnapped. A large, well-armed Taliban force is present in Karachi, according to a police report.