US-PAK 2 LST

Attacks targeting the country's major urban centers,
including Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Karachi, and
Rawalpindi, continued to increase, it said.
At the same time, it noted some of the significant
gains made by the government in its fight against terrorism,
clearing several areas of their control after the insurgents
failed to honour an agreement with the government.
Another major blow to the terrorists in Pakistan was
the August 4 death of the leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
(TTP), Baitullah Mehsud, it said.
At year's end, Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps
(FC) was engaged in fighting against a banned terrorist
organisation, Lashkar-i-Islam (LI), in the Bara subdivision of
Khyber Agency, while the Pakistan Air Force and Army Aviation
was striking the TTP in Orakzai Agency with aerial bombardment
in advance of a possible ground assault. PTI LKJ
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