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The Taliban killed three soldiers in an IED attack in North Waziristan. Two members of an anti-Taliban militia were killed in Khyber. Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Mohmand.

Two soldiers and nine Taliban fighters were killed during a clash in Dir. The Taliban killed a special forces soldier and bombed a girls’ school in Mohmand. Security forces detained a top aide to Swat Taliban Mullah Fazlullah during a raid in Nowshera, and three “terrorists” in Quetta.

The Pakistani military denied reports that it would be launching a joint operation with the US against militants in North Waziristan. In Khyber, five Lashkar-e-Islam militants, including a commander, died while handling their own explosives , and five Taliban fighters were killed by IEDs. Parked NATO containers in Chakri were deemed a security risk.

Security forces detained five Taliban fighters who were planning sectarian attacks in Multan and three “terrorists” in Lakki Marwat. Pakistan has reopened the Khyber crossing to NATO supplies.

Seven “militants,” including six Uzbek fighters, were killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed one person in a bombing outside a movie theater in Manshera, and bombed a girls’ school in Swabi.

The Taliban killed nine people in a bombing at a market in Bajaur. Three people were killed in a bombing at a Lashkar-e-Islam headquarters in Khyber. Pakistan temporarily shut down NATO’s supply route to Afghanistan.

The Taliban killed 10 civilians in an IED attack in Arakzai. Security forces killed nine Taliban fighters in Chitral. Tribesmen and clerics in North Waziristan said polio vaccinations would be halted until the US ends drone strikes in Pakistan.