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Encouraging to see that the Pakistani military is actually out there fighting again. They still don’t seem to do enough and appear to be much more concerned with the Taliban in their own country than in helping out America in the war on terror, but to the extent that we can get them to cooperate, it’s good to see that every once in a while they do.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/08/13/world/international-uk-pakistan-violence.html

Pakistani helicopters attacked several bases run by Hakeemullah Mehsud, one of Mehsud’s main commanders who is seen as a possible successor, in the Kurram and Orakzai ethnic Pashtun tribal regions northeast of Mehsud’s South Waziristan powerbase.

“We have reports that eight militants have been killed,” Fazal Rahim, a government official in Orakzai, told Reuters.

An intelligence official in the nearby Kurram region said three militants were killed in air strikes there.

Hours later, a pro-government Pashtun tribal elder and three other people were killed in a bomb attack in South Waziristan.

“He was travelling in his car when a suicide bomber riding a motorbike blew himself up,” said an intelligence official in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan.