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Pakistani jets killed eight “militants” in Arakzai. The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa dodged a suicide bombing in Mardan. The fate of the Taliban commander Tariq Afridi is still unknown. The Taliban rejected peace talks.

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A suicide bomber killed seven people in an attack on a police station in Bannu. Upwards of six members of a Taliban suicide assault team were killed in a separate attack on a police station in Bannu. The Taliban killed nine people in two bombings in Arakzai. Two Taliban commanders were gunned down in Khyber.

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Pakistan – Government lists ceasefire as talks precondition for Taliban

Pakistani Taliban praise slain American, British jihadists

Pictures of an American identified as Inaam and a Brit known as Abbas are shown with top leaders of the Taliban, al Qaeda, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and other terrorist groups who have been killed while waging jihad across the globe over the past four decades.

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Taliban’s political strategy: Silence voices of dissent

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AHRC says religious extremists creating bloodbath in Sindh

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US drones killed two Arab al Qaeda operatives, including an explosives expert, four Uzbeks, and a Taliban fighter in a strike in South Waziristan. Pakistan’s foreign secretary claimed al Qaeda has been eliminated in his country.

Pakistan’s foreign secretary denounces drones, claims al Qaeda is dead

Meanwhile, US drones killed two Arab al Qaeda operatives, including an explosives expert, in a strike in North Waziristan.

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Thirteen security personnel, 12 Taliban fighters, and 10 civilians were killed after the Taliban launched an assault on a checkpoint in Lakki Marwat. The Taliban killed two more soldiers in an IED attack in Arakzai.

Pakistani military calls HRW report ‘a pack of lies,’ and ‘fabricated’

The HRW report provoked an undiplomatic response from the Pakistani military and ISI.

Taliban suicide assault team hits Pakistani military camp

Thirteen Pakistani military personnel, 11 civilians, and 12 Taliban fighters are reported to have been killed. The Taliban said the attack was carried out to avenge the deaths of two senior commanders killed in recent US drone strikes.

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A suicide bomber killed 22 civilians in an attack outside of two mosques in Hangu. Six Pakistanis were killed after mortars fired from Afghanistan struck in South Waziristan.

Suicide bomber kills 22 in attack near Pakistani mosques

The bomber detonated close to two nearby mosques, one Shia and one Sunni, in Hangu. The attack may have been carried out by the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, or both groups.

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‘Admitting you are a secularist can get you killed in Pakistan’

Sidelined Pakistani Taliban commander back in good graces

The reconciliation between Faqir Mohammed and Abu Bakr, the new emir in Bajaur, shows that the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan is far from defeated and disorganized, as the Pakistani government has claimed. The Taliban’s leaders were able to convene the shura, send a delegation to Bajaur to mediate the dispute, and organize the reconciliation of the factions in the tribal agency.

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The Pakistani military claimed it killed 33 Taliban and Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in airstrikes in Khyber and Arakzai tribal agencies. The Taliban, which has been battling the rival Ansarul Islam in Khyber, denied the Pakistani military’s claims.

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In Former Taliban Sanctuary, An Eerie Silence Takes Over

Pakistani merchants ban videogames for portraying country as terrorist breeding ground

Maybe it is just too much reality for Pakistan’s electronic entertainment association.

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Fifty-three people were killed after the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan and Ansarul Islam clashed in Khyber’s Tirah Valley. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s information minister called for peace talks with the Taliban.

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Zero Dark Thirty will not be shown in Pakistan cinemas

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Two policemen, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, and two civilians were killed in a bombing in Karachi. Pakistan admitted to holding more than 700 terrorism suspects without charging them with crimes.

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Desecrations alarm Pakistan’s Ahmadi sect

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Pakistan’s first anti-blasphemy telefilm premiered

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The Taliban executed a “US spy” who they claimed is responsible for the drone strike that killed mullah Nazir in South Waziristan. The Taliban’s spokesman vowed that his group would attack a Hindu group in Kashmir.

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The Taliban killed two soldiers in Mohmand and a Frontier Corps trooper in Khyber, and wounded four soldiers in an IED attack in North Waziristan. Thirty-eight people have been killed in sectarian violence in Karachi in the past week.

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Pakistan – Four most wanted TTP men held

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Pakistan – FC says militants demonising force to scare away local support

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Graft-Case Investigator Found Dead in Pakistan

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The Taliban in South Waziristan distributed pamphlets conveying their determination to control the area and avenge the death of Mullah Nazir, who was killed by a US drone strike two weeks ago. The Taliban also said there was no disunity in their ranks, which are being led by new commander Salahuddin Ayubi.

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Central Government Takes Over Pakistan Province