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Tribal elders are negotiating a truce between the Taliban and the military. “Once the ceasefire is agreed upon then a larger jirga will discuss permanent peace,” said Governor Orakzai. The Taliban executed six “criminals” in Mohmand agency.

The government is seeking a peace agreement with the Taliban in North Waziristan as the fighting is ongoing. Twenty-five civilians were wounded after the Taliban bombed a CD shop bazaar in Peshawar; 30 shops were destroyed in Malakand. Maulana Fazlullah formed a volunteer force to “control the law & order” in Swat.

Fighting over the weekend in North Waziristan resulted in 20 soldiers and 65 Taliban fighters killed. The Taliban beheaded a man for “spying for the government” in Darra Adamkhel. Five captured soldiers escaped in Bannu; the Taliban killed two soldiers and released five others. Pakistanis, Chechens, and Uzbeks were killed in Afghanistan’s Paktika province.

The Taliban claimed it captured 28 paramilitary soldiers in North Waziristan; the military denied this. Ten soldiers were killed and 15 wounded, and 20 Taliban were killed and 30 wounded after the army conducted a strike in North Waziristan. Maulana Fazlullah and the TNSM demanded sharia law be implemented in the Malakand division of Swat. […]

Pervez Musharraf was elected to a third term as president as the opposition sat out of the voting. The Supreme Court must still decide on petitions filed by the opposition. The Taliban killed one soldier and wounded 19 in an IED ambush of a military convoy in North Waziristan.

The election in Pakistan is underway. One civilian was killed and eight soldiers were wounded in Taliban attacks on bases and a convoy in North Waziristan. Negotiations to free over 300 Pakistani soldiers captured in South Wazirstan are on hold until Baituallah Mehsud recovers from typhoid.

The bodies of three soldiers were found in South Waziristan a day after Baitullah Mehsud threatened to kill three soldiers a day if troops are not withdrawn and 10 of his subordinates are not released. A taped message from Addul Aziz Ghazi called for sharia law and “sacrifice” was broadcast at the reopening of the […]

Fourteen civilians were killed in an IED attack on a bus in North Waziristan. Two Taliban and one soldier were killed during a Taliban attack on a checkpoint in North Waziristan. Two police and a paramilitary soldier were killed in a Taliban attack on a checkpoint in Hangu. The Red Mosque has reopened. Musharraf will […]

General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani has been named Vice Chief of Army Staff and is set to assume the job of Chief of Staff if Musharraf resigns after the October 6 election. At least 24 Frontier Constabulary soldiers are missing after a Taliban attack on a check post in Bannu.