Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained a Taliban commander in Karachi. Eight Taliban fighters surrendered in Bajaur. The Taliban bombed two NATO fuel tankers in Peshawar. The US will ship three F-16 fighters to the Pakistan Air Force.
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Pakistani troops killed eight Taliban fighters in Arakzai. An investigation indicates police aided in the escape of four Jundallah members held in a jail in Karachi. The Taliban destroyed four NATO tankers in Peshawar.
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Security forces killed 24 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained five Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber; a Frontier Corps trooper was also killed in fighting in Arakzai. The Taliban is openly raising money in Punjab. A German suspected of belonging to al Qaeda has been detained in Bannu.
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Security forces killed 43 Taliban fighters in Arakzai, five in Swat, and four more in Dera Ismail Khan; 22 fighters surrendered in Bajaur. The Taliban offered a prisoner swap for 33 captive Frontier Corps troops and threatened local truckers that convoys transporting NATO goods would be attacked.
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Ten Taliban fighters and three Frontier Corps troops were killed during a clash in Arakzai. The Taliban killed two Levies recruits in Dir. Police arrested a Taliban commander in Karachi.
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Security forces killed 16 Taliban fighters in Arakzai; a Taliban commander and three fighters were killed in a premature detonation in the tribal agency. US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke said Pakistan does not have the capacity to conduct an operation against the Taliban in North Waziristan.
The US killed an al Qaeda military commander and 12 Islamic Jihad Union fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Gunmen killed a policeman and freed four captive Jundallah fighters during an assault on a courthouse in Karachi. The military killed four Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban killed one civilian in a bombing in […]
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The Afghan Taliban captured 40 Pakistani Frontier Corps troops in Mohmand. Thirty-eight Taliban fighters and 10 Frontier Corps troops were killed in fighting in Bajaur. The Afghan Taliban denied receiving support from the Pakistani government and military.
Ten Frontier Corps troops and 38 Taliban fighters were killed in Bajaur, while 40 more troops were captured in Mohmand by the Afghan Taliban.