No Ramadan Truce In Pakistan

Pakistani Taliban were ready yesterday to execute two Afghans for their alleged spying for US forces and helping orchestrate a suspected US missile strike that killed 14 people last month. (Anwarullah Associated Press)

Taliban In Pakistan Rejects Offer For Ramadan Truce -- Daily Star

Pakistani Taliban will continue attacks during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, rejecting a government announcement it would halt military actions in the northwest, a Taliban spokesman said Sunday. Violence has surged in Pakistan in recent weeks with the military battling Al-Qaeda- and Taliban-linked fighters in three different parts of the northwest.

The militants have responded with suicide and remotely detonated bomb attacks on the security forces and civilian targets.

Deteriorating security has coincided with a faltering economy and political upheaval as the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf on August 18 was followed a week later by a split in the ruling coalition.

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My Comment: The Taliban in Pakistan are very confident that they will be able to defeat the military. They do not want the Pakistani military to take a break.