Quickhits

(AFP) Pakistan to mine, fence sections of Afghan border.

(AP) A car bomb goes off at the Peshawar airport, capitol of Pakistan's northwest tribal provinces. ((Reuters) "quite close to one of several military offices outside the airport.")

(BBC, AFP, Reuters) The Somali Islamists are falling back towards Mogadishu. (Do they plan on fighting there where they have strong popular support? Wage an insurgency? And how do their sponsors react, Eritrea, Sudan, Saudi, Egypt?)

(AFP) Iran works towards its sanctions response.