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The Taliban hit two police stations in the relatively stable district of Mansehra; a police chief was killed. The Pakistani Air Force killed 30 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in South Waziristan.

Three security personnel were killed in an attack on an Army barracks. It was the fourth suicide attack in Pakistan-held Kashmir since June 2009.

The Dec. 28 Karachi suicide attack killed 43 people. Taliban commander Asmatullah Bhittani said such attacks would continue.

The attack took place at a mosque frequented by police in Lower Dir. Two children were among those killed.

Suicide bombers detonated outside of a bank and a police station in a market in the eastern city.

The attack is the latest in the Taliban’s campaign against military, governmental, and tribal targets.

One naval security guard was killed after the teenaged suicide bomber detonated at the guardpost outside the naval headquarters in the capital of Islamabad.

More than 50 are wounded, six critically, in the latest suicide strike in the besieged city of Peshawar.

Peshawar has been hit hard in the Taliban offensive; one-third of the major Taliban attacks have taken place in the northwestern province. Clashes were reported throughout the northwest.

Ten Pakistanis have been reported killed and more than 35 wounded in an attack that targeted the headquarters of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency in the provincial capital. A second suicide attack killed seven at a police station in Bannu.

The bombing in Charsadda is the third suicide attack in the northwest in three days. Some Pakistanis refuse to believe the Taliban would carry out such attacks.

The attack killed a mayor who had raised a militia to battle the Taliban.

The blast took place in a high-security area populated by hotels and military installations. The government has offered bounties for Taliban leaders.

The attacks are the first since the government’s offensive was launched in South Waziristan. The military took control of a Taliban stronghold in the tribal agency.

Two suicide bombers, including a female, attacked a police station and an intelligence headquarters in the provincial capital.

The Pakistani Taliban assault teams attacked the Federal Investigation Agency building, the Manawan police training centre, and the Elite Force Headquarters.

The Taliban have struck again, this time at a police station in Kohat. Ten policemen and civilians have been reported killed in the deadly attack.

The Taliban’s terror counteroffensive is in full swing with the fourth major attack in seven days. A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives in a bazaar in the district of Shangla.

Four attackers and six soldiers were killed in a battle outside the front gate of the General Headquarters in the military garrison city. Several of the terrorists escaped and are holding more than a dozen people hostage.

An explosion rocked the offices of the World Food Program in a secured region in Pakistan’s capital. The Taliban have warned they would relaunch attacks nationwide if operations in the tribal areas are not halted.

The suicide bomber entered the training grounds at the Special Police Training Center in Mingora and detonated his vest. The attack is the latest in a string of attacks targeting Pakistan’s security forces.