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The military killed 28 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Police detained two Taliban operatives in Swat. Mehsud tribal leaders agreed to return to South Waziristan; tribal leaders held talks with the Taliban. A Taliban spokesman said the group would continue to attack those who support the US.

Six Frontier Corps troops and more than 20 Taliban fighters were killed after the Taliban attacked an outpost in Khyber. Maulvi Noor Jamal, the Taliban leader in Kurram, survived an IED attack in Arakzai; four Taliban fighters were killed. The Taliban bombed a school in Arakzai.

A US strike in North Waziristan killed six Haqqani Network fighters. Pakistani strikes in Arakzai killed 36 Taliban fighters. The Taliban torched two schools in Dir. Iranian agents freed a diplomat kidnapped in Peshawar in 2008. The UN delayed the release of the report on the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Security forces killed nine Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained three Lashkar-e-Jhangvi fighters in the suburbs of Karachi. A suicide bomber killed a member of the Abdullah Mehsud Group. The Lahore High Court ruled that AQ Khan could not discuss nuclear proliferation but said he is a free man.

Security forces killed 22 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Ten Pakistanis were wounded by bombings at markets in Karachi and Peshawar. Pakistan will purchase 14 more F-16 fighters from the US.

A US strike in North Waziristan killed four Taliban fighters. Pakistani airstrikes killed 11 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban murdered six truck drivers in Hangu and bombed two schools in Khyber and Mohmand. Fifty Taliban fighters surrendered to a jirga in Bajaur.

The Taliban overran a Frontier Corps post in Arakzai and killed five troops, including a senior officer; 21 Taliban fighters were killed in the counterattack. The Punjabi Taliban named Abuzar Khanjari the new leader of the Qari Zafar group. The US will spend $40 million to help build roads in Peshawar and Malakand.

The Pakistani military claimed 82 Taliban fighters have been killed in air and artillery strikes in Arakzai over the past two days. A seminary run by the Tablighi Jamaat was hit in one of the strikes. Security forces detained a former Afghan Taliban governor of Uruzgan province and an Egyptian al Qaeda member in Karachi.

Six Haqqani Network fighters were killed in a US strike in North Waziristan. Pakistani forces killed five Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained eight more in Bajaur. The Taliban killed a tribal elder in Hangu and bombed a girls’ school in Nowshera. The Taliban plotted to kidnap the Jordanian ambassador.

Security forces killed a Taliban commander and two fighters in Swat. Police detained two terrorists behind the October 2009 attack on the World Food Program headquarters in Islamabad. The leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl party said he supports the Afghan Taliban.