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Punjabi Taliban suicide bombers killed 29 worshipers during a procession in Lahore. The Pakistani military killed more than 60 terrorists and civilians in airstrikes in Khyber, and 15 Taliban fighters in Kurram and Arakzai. The Taliban torched two NATO fuel tankers in Mastung and Khuzdar.

Eight “militants” were killed in a Pakistani airstrike in Khyber and three more were killed in a shootout in Swat. Five Lashkar-e-Islam fighters were killed near Darra Adam Khel. The Taliban torched three NATO fuel tankers in Mastung and Khuzdar.

Two soldiers were killed in an IED attack in Khyber. Two Taliban commanders were killed in fighting in Swat and another was detained in Karachi. The Taliban kidnapped 10 workers in Chitral.

Punjabi Taliban leader Usman Punjabi and six other terrorists were killed in a clash with a rival faction of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in North Waziristan. Police detained 17 “wanted terrorists” and recovered a large cache of weapons and explosives during sweeps in Mardan.

A US Predator strike killed four “terrorists” in an attack on two vehicles in Kurram. Three terrorists who overpowered their guards in an Army headquarters in Peshawar surrendered after taking two hostages. The Taliban kidnapped the father of a politician in Kurram.

The son of General Tariq Majid, the chairman of the Army’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, was kidnapped in Lahore. One person was killed in a bombing in Mansehra. The Taliban bombed three tankers in Quetta, Kalat, and Mastung, and a school in Khyber. The Ittehad Mujahideen Khurasan announced an amnesty for “US spies.”

Punjab will begin releasing over 390 members of Pakistani terror groups over the next several days. Security forces killed one Lashkar-e-Islam fighter and detained 29 more in Khyber. The Taliban bombed five NATO fuel tankers at the border crossing in Torkham.

The Taliban killed 18 people in a suicide attack in a mosque in South Waziristan and seven people, including a pro-government militia leader, in an IED attack in Kurram, and wounded seven tribal leaders in a bombing near Peshawar. The US killed five people in a strike against the Haqqani Network in North Waziristan.