Peace and prosperity of Afghanistan is essential for Pakistan. Pakistanis should do more to hunt and kill the Arrabobs and MAToos. These beardos are like leaches trying to suck Afghan blood. My hats off to Pak Army.
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Pakistan army in new border raid
The Pakistani army has continued its offensive against suspected Islamic militants in North Waziristan.
Hundreds of troops, supported by helicopter gunships, raided suspected militant hideouts on Saturday.
Pakistan deployed more troops to the border region last week, ahead of elections in Afghanistan.
The latest offensive coincided with President Musharraf’s visit to the UN, during which he has stressed Pakistan’s anti-terrorism credentials.
Saturday’s search operation in a village in North Waziristan was launched before dawn.
An intelligence official told Reuters that “so far there has not been any resistance or engagement with the militants”.
‘Suspect’ drone
The latest operations are taking place ahead of parliamentary and provincial elections in Afghanistan on Sunday.
Afghan officials say that militants are able to launch attacks from Pakistan into Afghanistan.
On Saturday, Governor of Kunar province Assadullah Waffa in Afghanistan told the BBC’s Bilal Sarwary that security officials had arrested two Pakistani nationals.
But Pakistan says that it is taking all steps possible to secure the border and on Saturday said that it had set up 50 new checkpoints along the border.
Earlier this week the army said that it had broken a strong network of Al Qaeda militants in the border region, arresting 21 militants and seizing a large number of modern weapons.
Among the weapons seized was what the army described as a remote-controlled aeroplane with video camera and highly sophisticated communications equipment.
But, it emerged subsequently that the drone shown to the media by the army was similar to model planes that can be freely brought on the open market.
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Published: 2005/09/17 12:13:28 GMT