The Punjabi Taliban killed more than 70 worshippers at two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore. The military killed 40 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The US killed 11 terrorists in an airstrike in South Waziristan. A top court declared nuclear scientist AQ Khan a free man.
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The attack is the first by the US in South Waziristan this year.
Two squads of heavily armed Punjabi Taliban fighters stormed two mosques of the Ahmadi sect in the eastern city.
Mullah Munibullah, the military commander for Nuristan, said Fazlullah would not be leading Taliban fighters in Nuristan.
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Pakistani security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban killed a soldier, a pro-government tribal leader, and two of his family members in Bajaur. The Taliban then burned the tribal leader’s home to the ground.
Afghan border police claimed the Swat Taliban commander was killed along with six fighters. The report is unconfirmed.
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Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and two more in Swat. The Times Square bomber has been linked to South Waziristan. Pakistan lifted its ban on Facebook.
Fighters said to be under the command of Mullah Fazlullah were repelled by Afghan police in the eastern district of Barg-e-Matal, which borders Chitral in Pakistan.
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The leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan agrees to abandon the safe havens in North Waziristan and return to South Waziristan. The pullout is “just the excuse the Pakistanis needed to call off a North Waziristan operation,” a US official said.
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Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained eight Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber. The families of 130 Taliban fighters have been expelled from Swat and have been placed in government camps.
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The May 18 suicide attack killed two colonels, two lieutenant colonels, two soldiers, and 12 Afghan civilians. Afghan intelligence also implicated Pakistan’s military intelligence service.
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