Twenty-eight Taliban fighters and five soldiers were killed in South Waziristan as the military retook control of the Ladha Fort. Hakeemullah Mehsud urged Taliban fighters not to desert the battlefield. Police arrested a Taliban commander in Karachi and three Jundallah fighters in Baluchistan. An Army brigadier and a soldier were wounded in an ambush in Islamabad.
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