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Security beefed up in Peshawar




Pakistan: Three arrested over Sri Lankan cricket attack




US military, Pakistan carrying out Predator drone missions together




Al Qaeda trying to establish links with jihadi groups




Moderate clerics speak out against Taliban




Two US senators oppose move for Pakistan aid




Pakistan: Lashkar-i-Taiba killed Gen Alvi, court told




Taliban launches complex assault in Haqqani country

Suicide assault teams target military and government buildings in Khost, the home of the Haqqani Network.


A US airstrike killed eight Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in South Waziristan. Pakistani commandos were airdropped into the Taliban controlled Peochar valley in Swat. The military killed 30 Taliban fighters in Dir; the Taliban claimed only 12 fighters have been killed since the operation began. The Taliban attacked a NATO truck terminal in Peshawar and bombed schools in Khyber and Bannu. Four suicide bombers were arrested in Rawalpindi.




NATO supply terminal attacked in Peshawar




Pak swoops down on Taliban den




US strikes again in South Waziristan

Eight Taliban and al Qaeda fighters are reported to have been killed in the latest airstrike against al Qaeda and Taliban compounds in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency. Of the 18 strikes in Pakistan this year, 10 have occurred in South Waziristan.


Taliban funded by $800m gems, marbles trade




The military claimed 52 Taliban fighters were killed during fighting in Swat; US officials called the military casualty numbers "wildly exaggerated." President Zardari said the Army will defeat the Taliban with the people™s support; only 45 percent of Pakistanis support the military operation in the northwest. Two more Army divisions may be deployed to the northwest. A suicide bomber killed 10 Pakistanis in Darra Adam Khel. One of Baitullah Mehsud's commanders was one of six people found dead in South Waziristan.




Pakistani claims of high Taliban casualties 'wildly exaggerated' - US officials

US officials are skeptical of the high Taliban casualty reports as the Interior Minister claimed 700 Taliban fighters have been killed in four days of fighting in Swat.


The military claimed 150 Taliban fighters were killed in Shangla and 60 more were killed in Swat. The Taliban destroyed a headquarters of the Dir Levies and killed one Malakand Levies officer and captured three others. The military claimed 26 Taliban were killed and another 14 were wounded after troops repelled an assault in Mohmand, but the Taliban claimed 20 soldiers were killed and another six were taken prisoner.




Shaky Pakistan is seen as a target of plots by Al Qaeda




Pakistani Taliban under pressure from tribal rival




Next few weeks crucial, says top US general




Villagers trapped between Taliban and Pakistan's war machine


 
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