Pakistan

President Musharraf will resign as army chief of staff one day before taking his new oath as president. The military said 20 Taliban and 4 soldiers were killed during fighting in Swat; the Taliban refuted the numbers. The Interior Minister said Swat will be resolved by the pols in January. A girl’s school in Peshawar was bombed.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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