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The Taliban claimed it kidnapped two Chinese engineers near the Afghan border. Nine Pakistanis were killed in a military offensive in Darra Adam Khel. Eight civilians were killed in a Pakistani military mortar attack in Bajaur. A tribal army retook two Taliban-control villages in Kurram; a cease-fire was declared after nine were killed and 26 […]

Six were killed, including “foreigners” in a US strike on an al Qaeda safe house in North Waziristan. Fighting in Kurram claimed 95 killed and 200 wounded. Lashkar-e-Islam leader Mangal Bagh fled Landi Kotal ahead of an operation. Tribesmen torched the homes of local Taliban in the Salarzai region in Bajaur. The Taliban bombed a […]

The government declared a cease-fire for the month of Ramadan. Five terrorists, including two Canadian Arabs, were killed in a US airstrike in South Waziristan. Forty Taliban fighters, including a commander were reported killed in Swat. Eighteen Taliban surrendered to police in Peshawar.

The military thwarted a triple suicide bomb attack near the Kohat Tunnel; five were killed and 37 wounded. The government may halt military operations in the tribal areas and Swat during Ramadan. Twenty-five Taliban fighters, including a commander, were reported killed in airstrikes in Swat. Politicians said the government has lost its writ in Swat. […]

A British-born al Qaeda suspect was detained near Gujranwala. Tribesman in Bajaur killed a suicide bomber and captured two while security forces killed five Taliban fighters. The military and the Taliban signed a cease-fire in South Waziristan after fighting on Aug. 27 resulted in 23 Taliban killed. The Taliban ordered civilians to leave Swat to […]

Pakistani troops traded machine-gun and artillery fire with insurgents in Bajur killing more than 30 Taliban fighters. The Pakistani military repelled a Taliban assault on a fort in the lawless South Waziristan tribal agency, killing 11 Taliban fighters and wounding up to 20 more. Swiss judicial authorities said they had closed a money-laundering case against […]

Eight Pakistanis were killed and more than 20 were wounded in a bombing in Islamabad. The Taliban attempted to assassinate the senior US diplomat in Peshawar. Pakistani forces claimed to have killed a senior Taliban leader in Swat. The Taliban banned foreign media from visiting North Waziristan.

The PML-N pulled out of the coalition government over a dispute over reappointing judges dismissed by former President Musharraf. The Taliban burned two US armored personnel carriers in Karachi that were destined for Afghanistan. Ten civilians were killed in a rocket attack on a politician’s home in Swat. The Taliban destroyed a police outpost, kidnapped […]

Forty-five Taliban and 10 soldiers were killed in fighting in Swat. Twenty-seven Pakistanis were killed in fighting in Kurram. Three bombings at a CD bazaar in Attock wounded four. The government banned the Taliban and rejected the Taliban’s unilateral cease-fire. JUI-F demanded the NWFP government resign due to the security situation. Baitullah Mehsud appointed three […]