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A suicide bomber killed 17 Pakistanis at a checkpoint in Bajaur. The military killed seven Taliban fighters in Bajaur and detained 10 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan. The Taliban murdered two men for “spying for US forces” in North Waziristan.

The US killed five Haqqani Network fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed 24 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Bajaur and Mohmand, and detained three suspected terrorists in Lahore. The Taliban bombed a NATO oil tanker in Khyber.

The Taliban destroyed three NATO supply trucks on the outskirts of Karachi and wounded six people while bombing CD shops in Attock. Security forces killed nine Taliban fighters in Bajaur and four more in South Waziristan, and detained seven fighters in Swat.

The Taliban killed a tribal leader who raised a lashkar and kidnapped two other tribal leaders in Bajaur, and killed three boys in an IED attack in Dir. Security forces killed two Taliban fighters in Bajaur and detained three more in Khyber and Mohmand.

The military killed 15 Taliban fighters in the Kurram tribal agency. Tribesmen in North Waziristan claimed to have shot down a second US Predator. The Taliban rewarded a man who claimed to have shot down the first. Former ISI officer Colonel Imam said Mullah Omar is open to negotiations.

The Pakistani Air Force and Army attack helicopters killed 13 Taliban fighters in Kurram and 10 more in Bajaur; six security personnel were wounded during the fighting. Twenty-seven additional Taliban fighters were captured during operations in Khyber, Bajaur, and Dir.

The Taliban executed seven “US spies” in North Waziristan. The Taliban also claimed to have shot down a Predator aircraft in North Waziristan. The Lashar-e-Islam killed a Frontier Corps soldier in Khyber. A Taliban commander and three fighters, and a soldier were killed during clashes in Swat.

A suicide bomber killed three civilians and a policeman in Tank. Twenty-two Taliban fighters and two soldiers were killed in clashes in Kurram and Arakzai. The Taliban destroyed a NATO fuel tanker in Peshawar.

Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in Swat, three in South Waziristan, and two more in North Waziristan, and detained nine Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber. The Taliban warned the Mehsud tribes not to return to their homes in South Waziristan as fighting is still ongoing.

The Army said it would not launch any new offensives against the Taliban this year. The US may have killed a wanted Abu Sayyaf operative in an airstrike on Jan. 14 in North Waziristan. The military killed eight Taliban fighters in Mohmand. The Taliban killed three tribal elders in Bajaur.

A tribal militia killed a Taliban commander and four fighters in Mohmand. The Taliban wounded a member of the provincial parliament and four others in a bombing in Peshawar. Two flights from Karachi received bomb threats.

A US strike in North Waziristan killed six Taliban fighters. Ten Taliban fighters and two soldiers were killed in fighting in North Waziristan; four more Taliban fighters were killed in Swat. Pakistani officials claimed five Taliban leaders were killed in US strikes on Jan. 15 and 17 in North Waziristan.

Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters during a clash at a checkpoint in North Waziristan and three more in Kurram, and detained seven suspected Taliban fighters in Mianwali. One member of a “peace committee” and three Taliban fighters were killed during a clash in Mohmand. The Taliban bombed a boys’ school in Khyber.