The government called off an operation against the Lal Masjid. The Pakistani military attacked an al Qaeda camp in the Zargarkhel village in North Waziristan. Waziristan based Taliban are massing in Swat and being sheltered by the TNSM. A "student of a local madressah" detonated a bomb near Interior Minister Sherpao's home in Charsadda. "There is no Al Qaeda base in Pakistan," said the Foreign Office. Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the chief of the banned Harkatul Jihad al-Islami, was released from custody.
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