« | Main | »

Four people, including two bodyguards for the provincial chief minister of the NWFP, were killed in a suicide attack in Peshawar; the Taliban took credit for the attack. Eleven Taliban fighters were killed in Swat and seven more were killed in Bajaur. Three Taliban and five civilians were killed in Khyber after security forces attempted to recover goods hijacked from a NATO convoy. The Taliban killed one civilian in an attack on a bus in Arakzai, bombed a police checkpoint in Bannu, and torched a girls' school in Dir.