FATA operation

At least 24 Taliban militants were killed in Orakzai and Khurram Agencies of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on March 21. In addition, the ongoing clash between the Mulla Toufan and Mulla Rafiq Taliban factions resulted in the death of six more militants from both the sides.
A US drone fired two missiles at an al Qaeda and Taliban hideout in Inzar village of North Waziristan, killing eight militants on March 21.

Two `commanders’ of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Mullah Toofan group were among 15 persons killed and nine others injured in FATA on March 20. The two Taliban militants, identified as Jungle Badshah and Ayub Shah, were killed in a fresh fighting between rival Taliban factions in Khurram Agency.
Aerial strikes on hideouts in Mamozai, Shaktangi and Arghujo areas of the Upper Orakzai agency claimed 10 lives.

TTP offers `deal’
A Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has offered to stop targeting public and Government places in Punjab if the Provincial Government adopts an hands off approach towards their group.
Mohmand Agency Ameer Abdul Wali has made the conditional offer following chief minister Shahbaz Sharif’s appeal to the Taliban that they should not carry out acts of terror in Punjab. Wali, who also goes around as Umar Khalid is the deputy of the TTP chief Hakeemullah Mehsud.(Daily Times, Mar 16)

HEADLEY PLEADS GUILTY
Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley, accused of plotting 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks and conspiring to target a Danish newspaper, has pleaded guilty before a Chicago court on March 18 in an apparent bid to get a lighter sentence than the maximum death penalty.
Headley told Judge Harry Leinenweber that he wanted to change his plea to guilty. He is charged on 12 counts. And he admitted he was guilty of all of them (The Hindu, Mar 19)

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