On Saturday evening as the lashkar in Upper Dir began to fight local Taliban, a suicide bomber penetrated a police compound in the capital, Islamabad, killing two policemen.

• 尽管军方表示，在还没抓到或打死斯瓦特区域塔利班高级领导人之前，战争不会结束，一些巴基斯坦官员说，他们坚信，塔利班现在只剩下招架之功了。