North Waziristan Ambush Highlights Taliban Control

The Pakistani military continues to underreport its casualties in the tribal areas and the settled districts of the Northwest Frontier Province. The latest misrepresentation occurred in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan, which, along with other tribal agencies, the government has ceded to the Taliban. On Wednesday, the Pakistani military claimed six soldiers were killed and 20 wounded after an ambush near Mir Ali. But Dawn reports the results of the ambush and other attacks in the tribal agency resulted in 15 soldiers killed and 38 wounded. The U.S. military has yet to take such casualties during a single day of combat in Iraq.