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Security forces killed seven Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Police captured four “terrorists” involved in a grenade attack on the Saudi consulate in Karachi. The Taliban torched trucks in Dasht carrying supplies for NATO forces.

US Predators killed 18 Taliban and “foreign fighters” in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed 16 Taliban fighters during fighting yesterday in Arakzai. Five “terrorists” and two policemen were killed during a clash in Karachi.

US Predators killed five people in a strike in North Waziristan. The Lashkar-e-Islam killed four Frontier Corps troops in an ambush in Khyber. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Mohmand.

The Taliban killed 16 people in a pair of bombings in Khyber, and bombed two schools in Swabi and Nowshera. The military has imposed a curfew in areas of North Waziristan.

Five security officials and five militants were killed during fighting in Jhelum in Punjab province; one report said that the fighters were from Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. The Taliban killed a policeman in a rocket attack in Shabqadar.

Four members of a pro-government militia and two Lashkar-e-Islam fighters were killed in a clash in Khyber. The US said it is confident that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program is secure.

A US official said another major attack on the US in Afghanistan would damage relations with Pakistan. Pakistan’s ambassador to the US denied Pakistan is supporting the Taliban. The Taliban bombed a girls’ school in Mardan.

The Taliban killed four people, including a pro-government tribal leader, in separate attacks in Bajaur and South Waziristan. The Taliban also killed a political leader and his bodyguard in a bombing outside a mosque in Swabi.

The Taliban killed five Pakistani soldiers in Makeen in South Waziristan; unconfirmed reports claimed up to 15 soldiers were killed. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied a report that the country’s nuclear weapons are not secured.