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The bodies of 22 Taliban fighters have been found in Darra Adam Khel and Swat. A wanted Taliban leader was killed in Swat and two Taliban offficals were captured in Karachi. The Taliban attacked a NATO convoy in Khyber and released two Sikh hostages in Khyber.

The Taliban released a tape of Hakeemullah Mehsud, but it did not confirm if he was alive. The head of the TNSM in Malakand surrendered to police. The military said it took control of the Badankot region in Bajaur. The Taliban took credit for the Feb. 27 suicide attack in Karak.

A suicide bomber killed three policemen and a civilian in Karak. Security forces killed 25 Taliban fighters in Kohat and Peshawar; one soldier was killed in the fighting. A curfew has been imposed in Dera Ismail Khan after sectarian violence resulted in four deaths.

Security forces detained three Lashkar-e-Jhangvi operatives in Karachi and four Taliban fighters, including Mullah Fazlullah’s nephew, in Nowshera. The military said most of Swat has been cleared of the Taliban. The Taliban bombed a school in Mohmand; it was the 16th school bombed in the tribal areas in February.

A Fedayeen-i-Islam commander may have been killed in a US strike in North Waziristan. Security forces captured a Taliban commander in Karachi. The Taliban bombed a NATO fuel tanker in Peshawar.

A US airstrike in North Waziristan killed eight Haqqani Network and foreign fighters. The Taliban beheaded three “US spies” in North Waziristan. Security forces detained a Lashkar-i-Taiba leader and 34 followers in Nowshera. The Lashkar-i-Islam publicly executed a murderer in Khyber.

Security forces killed six Taliban fighters, detained 14 more, and destroyed four bases in in Darra Adam Khel. Four Taliban fighters were killed in a premature detonation in Kurram. A large IED blast targeted members of an anti-Taliban committee in Peshawar; no one was hurt.

A suicide bomber killed 10 civilians and two policemen in an attack at a market in Mingora, the main town in Swat. Security forces detained 34 suspected Taliban fighters in Hangu and 25 more in Khyber. Pakistan’s Senate unanimously passed a resolution in support of Aafia Siddiqi, the al Qaeda operative who was convicted in […]

The military killed eight suspected Taliban fighters in Kohat and detained 80 suspected Taliban fighters in Bajaur and 74 more in Khyber; 20 fighters, including a commander, surrendered in Bajaur. The Taliban beheaded a Sikh hostage in Khyber, attacked a flour mill in Kohat, and bombed two schools in Mohmand.