Pakistan

Security forces killed nine Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained three Lashkar-e-Jhangvi fighters in the suburbs of Karachi. A suicide bomber killed a member of the Abdullah Mehsud Group. The Lahore High Court ruled that AQ Khan could not discuss nuclear proliferation but said he is a free man.

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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