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April 3, 2007, 3:54am
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Re: 5000 Pakistani tribesmen enlist to fight militants
Finally, after all these years the people of FATA are rising in their thousands and thousands to fight for Pakistan aganist the foreign militants.
Thousands of Pakistani tribesmen enlist to fight militants
Around 5,000 tribesmen gathered in a Pakistani border area Monday to enlist for ongoing battles against foreign Al-Qaeda militants, officials and witnesses said. The jirga or tribal assembly was called by a pro-government chief and former Taliban commander following two weeks of pitched battles in the South Waziristan region during which more than 200 people have died.** The Pakistani government says the efforts to drive the Uzbek, Chechen and Arab militants from the area show the success of Islamabad’s peace deals with formerly Taliban-supporting tribesmen .“We should fight against the foreigners as one nation. They have created so many problems for us,” witnesses quoted the tribal commander, Mullah Nazir, as telling the gathering**. Officials say the foreign insurgents, who are accused of leading attacks on NATO and US forces in Afghanistan, number around 500. Most fled Afghanistan after the 2001 fall of the Taliban regime. Nazir and other chiefs said they would gather a tribal army known as a lashkar on Tuesday morning in Wana to fight the foreign militants. They called on tribesmen in the neighbouring towns of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan, which are officially outside the semi-autonomous Pakistani tribal belt, to join in. The council also warned local tribesmen not to support foreigners or else their homes would be burnt, they would face a one million rupee (16,394 dollar) fine and they would be expelled from the area, a local tribesman told AFP.
http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/01/welcome.htm
Whats to be happy about? The foreign militants may leave, but then you still have the Taliban to deal with… The Taliban arent going stop fighitng the Americans in Afghanistan, nor are the going to stop spreading their religous terror in FATA and other parts of Pak.