The fighting between the Pakistani military and the Taliban is back on after the latest cease-fire in the settled district of Swat fell through. The Taliban, led by radical cleric Mauluna Qazi Fazlullah, attacked Pakistani military and police positions throughout Swat on Tuesday and Wednesday, prompting the Pakistani military to return fire with helicopter gunships. The Taliban responded by firing at the helicopters. “The militants twice attacked the choppers in mid year with rockets, causing no damage,” the Associated Press of Pakistan, a government news agency, reported. “[The Taliban] blew up boundary wall of the Mingora Police Lines.” The military claimed 15 to 18 Taliban were killed in the latest round of fighting, which has now claimed the lives of at least 50 Pakistani soldiers and 70 Taliban fighters. Despite the repeated attacks on government forces, and the beheadings of 13 soldiers and police, the government is eager to negotiate, Syed Saleem Shahzad reports. “Senator Gul Naseeb, a senior leader of the religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), told Adnkronos International that a high-ranking delegation was to meet militant leader, and pro-Taliban cleric, Mullah Fazlullah, at a secret location on Wednesday evening.”