According to a terrorism update on January 18th, 2011:
- The bullet-riddled bodies of three political activists were found in Balochistan, Pakistan and TPC cadres shot dead two people in Jharkhand, India. A CRPF constable was also killed in Maoist blasts in Bihar, India.
- The death toll from a minibus bomb blast in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan reached 18. Maoists set fire to a CPI-M party office in West Bengal, India and a NATO fuel tanker was blown up in FATA, Pakistan.
- Conflict deepened within the UCPN-M party in Nepal.