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I hope the operation is against every terrorist group because there are no 'good' terrorists. Pakistan must not nurture any khariji takfiri group.
our neighbours are playing dirty role in afganistan. In order to neutralize them, we have to use haqani network type groups. They are neither against pakistan nor killing pakis.
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our neighbours are playing dirty role in afganistan. In order to neutralize them, we have to use haqani network type groups. They are neither against pakistan nor killing pakis.
Let us do away with the policy of using one group against another. Pakistan is a state and it should behave like a responsible and dignified country. I see your point of Afghanistan becoming a haven for the fleeing terrorists, but the matter should be raised with Afghan government. American forces are still stationed in Afghanistan. If Washington is really serious, it's the time it practices what it preaches.
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Let us do away with the policy of using one group against another. Pakistan is a state and it should behave like a responsible and dignified country. I see your point of Afghanistan becoming a haven for the fleeing terrorists, but the matter should be raised with Afghan government. American forces are still stationed in Afghanistan. If Washington is really serious, it's the time it practices what it preaches.
do u really think, afghan gov will listen to us? They are playing in the hands of our neighbouring countries, stop being "SHREEF" and "Responsible country" and Play openly in afghanistan and show them how it is done, otherwise we wil be sandwiched between eastren and westren border. As far as TTP is concered , kill them all. They are terrorists.
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BBC News - Pakistan and Afghanistan discuss security amid strikes
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15 more killed in fresh N Waziristan air strikes - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
By Zahir Shah Sherazi | Mateen Haider
Published about 4 hours ago
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A Pakistan Army helicopter. — File photo
PESHAWAR: At least 15 more suspected militants were killed in fresh bombings early Tuesday by jet fighters that targeted insurgent hideouts in the North Waziristan tribal region.
Gunship helicopters and jets targeted militant compounds in Dattakhel Tehsil in the fresh strike. More than 187 militants have been killed since operation Zarb-i-Azb was launched in the tribal region.
Earlier today:
[HR][/HR]Army chief postpones Sri Lanka visit
[HR][/HR]Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif has postponed his scheduled four-day visit to Sri Lanka.
The ISPR spokesman said the army chief was scheduled to leave for Colombo today but postponed it due to on going operation in North Waziristan
Sources told Dawn.com that the army chief is directly supervising operation Zarb-i-Azb and holding daily meetings with concerned military commanders.
[HR][/HR]10 militants killed
[HR][/HR]10 militants were killed when jets pounded militant hideouts in the Mir Ali Tehsil of the tribal region on Tuesday. The casualties were reported on the third day of the full-scale military operation launched in North Waziristan.
Official sources earlier today said fighter jets targeted militants hideouts in Kushali Torikhel, Khaisur and Hiskhel areas of Mir Ali, leaving 10 dead.
Scores of militants were injured and their hideouts were also destroyed, sources added.
[HR][/HR]Read more: NWA operation: Seven more militants killed; toll rises to 187
[HR][/HR]Curfew remained imposed in the area for the fifth consecutive day as all routes leading to North Waziristan remained sealed with no one allowed to move out.
Locals have been told to either register at IDP camps in FR Bannu Baka Khel or leave with relatives moving out of the tribal agency.
New checkposts have been established near Miramshah Bazaar, which has been cordoned off to restrict movement. Tanks have also been deployed at checkposts, and aerial surveillance is also taking place.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) a day earlier had stated that the operation in North Waziristan was progressing “as per plan”.
North Waziristan has been isolated by the deployment of troops along its border with neighbouring tribal regions to block movement of terrorists in and out of the agency.
Pakistan Army launched the comprehensive operation against foreign and local terrorists hiding in sanctuaries in North Waziristan tribal region a week after the brazen insurgent attack on the country’s busiest airport in Karachi.
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US hikes surveillance on Pak-Afghan border - World - DAWN.COM
By AP
Updated about 2 hours ago
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This picture shows the Pak-Afghan border. — File photo
WASHINGTON: The top US military commander in Afghanistan says the US has increased its surveillance over the Pak-Afghan border since Pakistan began pounding North Waziristan with airstrikes, but so far officials have not seen any militants fleeing the latest offensive.
Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford told The Associated Press in an interview that the US was not coordinating military operations with Pakistan along the border, but officials have increased the amount of intelligence-sharing with the Afghans.
He said the Afghan troops and US forces in that region were ready for any effects of the strikes, including extremists seeking refuge in Afghanistan.
The US has long pressed Pakistan to root out Taliban militants who have found safe haven in the lawless tribal region of North Waziristan, along the Afghan border, and used it as a staging area to launch attacks.
Dunford said officials have seen families crossing the border to escape the military airstrikes that have pounded North Waziristan since Sunday.
“The Afghan forces as well as our forces are fully prepared to deal with the second-order effects of the operations in North Waziristan,” Dunford said in an interview from Afghanistan. He added that officials were still trying to determine how many families have fled into Afghanistan to escape the violence, but it was difficult because many relocate to families in the southeast and northeast.
More broadly, Dunford expressed increased confidence in the Afghan security forces, and said he did not believe that the military collapse playing out in Iraq would occur in Afghanistan once US combat troops leave.
He said the US fully expects to get a bilateral security agreement with Afghanistan’s government that will allow up to 14,000 US and Nato troops to remain in the country next year to advise the Afghans and conduct counter-terrorism missions.
The US left Iraq after the government in Baghdad refused to agree on a security arrangement. “I don’t see, at least today, the divisive politics that obviously resulted in the situation in Iraq playing out here in Afghanistan,” said Dunford. “We’re encouraged by the fact that we will have a bilateral security agreement. I’m encouraged by the fact that we have multiethnic (presidential) tickets. “
Militants are advancing across Iraq, taking control of several cities in the north and moving toward Baghdad, while roiling Sunni-Shia ethnic tensions. In the face of the brutal Al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, some Iraqi security forces have fled.
The failure of the Iraqi troops to hold off the ISIL, just three years after American troops left the country after eight years or war, has led some US leaders to question whether the same slide into chaos and insurgent control will happen in Afghanistan.
Dunford said that while Afghan military leaders at times expressed frustration with President Hamid Karzai, including his decisions to limit close air support missions or other partnered operations with Nato troops, “not once was there a hint that they wouldn’t follow his direction. “
Noting the deteriorating situation in Iraq, Republican Sen. John McCain said President Barack Obama was “about to make the same mistake in Afghanistan he made in Iraq. “ Asked what can be done to prevent that from happening, Dunford said the US and Nato need a signed security agreement so they can continue to train and advise the Afghan security forces, and the next president “needs to have an inclusive government” and reach out to all the ethnic groups in the country.
He said there was less violence during Afghanistan’s runoff presidential election over the weekend than during the initial voting in April. And he added that, overall, the level of violence in Afghanistan this month is lower than the same time last year. “What we’ve seen is that the Taliban have been unable, right now, to maintain any kind of momentum against the Afghan security forces,” said Dunford. “What’s remarkable about that is, number one, the Afghan forces are in the lead and not us.
And, second, the Taliban indicated a very strong intent to disrupt the elections and to increase the level of violence prior to the elections, and we simply didn’t see any surge in violence. “ He added that there was growing divisiveness and frustration among the Taliban.
“We’ve seen some mistrust develop between the Taliban senior leadership and the rank-and-file fighters out in the provinces,” Dunford said. “I think the morale of Taliban fighters has been affected adversely as a result of the lack of success. “
The US has announced it will leave about 9,800 troops in Afghanistan at the end of this year. Of those, 8,000 will train and advise the Afghans, and the rest would conduct counterterror operations. Nato countries will contribute another 4,000 or more troops.
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Once again, a terrorist leader is threatening civilians with revenge attacks; and mainly those who are actively participating in the economic progress of Pakistan. Pakistan has long been plagued with terrorism; a recent example of which we have seen at Karachi airport. It is has been unfortunate to witness such a brazen attack which took the lives of many innocent people. We support the Pakistani government and military in their quest to restore peace and stability in their country. As our State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki has said, “This is a Government of Pakistan operation. We’ve long supported Pakistan efforts to extend their sovereignty throughout the country and stability throughout the country."
Haroon Ahmad
DET – U.S. Central Command
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Govt sets aside Rs500m for IDPs of N Waziristan operation: Darhttp://tribune.com.pk/story/723171/govt-sets-aside-rs500m-for-idps-of-n-waziristan-operation-dar/
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The operation was planned in 2010 and was planned/ recommended by then DG ISI. Gen Pasha
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I don't know if obama administration would have paid pakistan back then for new cities as Holbrooke, a very tough man, wanted up to $100 billion dollar marshal plan for pakistan but he never got any takers in the US govt with the military always ridiculing him. Hillary herself had to stand up for that guy and the post is useless now with him gone. All of the gory details were given in a book by his adviser Vali Nasr some time ago.
The only problem now is dair aaye so neither is there any US presence on the afghan border nor is there any appetite for giving aid to Pakistan post-2011 or with american weariness with iraq / afghanistan. It would take another decade of quiet for american public to forget the past adventures.
PS Can't and haven't the militants blended in the civilian population in the past to escape? The lal masjid 'mujahideen' didn't take long to escape in burqas when the going got tough so you would need intel based vetting of refugees and I doubt that pakistan is MI-5 or FBI here.
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For those who may not know …
Know Pakistan operation on Kharjee terrorists (in pictures)
Major Pakistan army offensives against Kharjee terrorists … first one was in Swat that started in Nov 2007:
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North Waziristan and who controls what:**
Mir Ali (and Part of Miran Shah): Controlled by TTP (Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan … also know as … Punjabi Taliban). They are mostly terrorists from Deobandi Madasas located in Punjab and Karachi.
Miran Shah: Mostly controlled by Haqqani Network mostly active in Afghanistan. Is under the command of Jalaluddin Haqqani (an Afghan) who graduated from Dar-al-'Ulam Haqqaniya Deobandi Madrasa.
Datta Khel: In part controlled by Hafiz Gul Bahadur who graduated from Deobandi Madrasa in Multan.
But …
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US drone attack kills six suspected militants in North Waziristan - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
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this is a good action for pakistan army i like world most pawor full force.
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abi tu ibteda hai agy agay dekho kia hota hai
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Is operation over?
Pakistan is fighting a war which would determine its future, the war which would tell us that are we going be Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt or we are going to be the one who crushed the menace of terrorism for good...our Jawans are sacrificing their lives... And we are busy what kinds of TuQ or shk Rasheed or pervaiz illahi has to say...the one who got rejected by the people of Pakistan.
Our leadership are calling for new elections without knowing that the country is in state of emergency, these terrorists can attack anywhere and anytime...but that is not their concern...
Just to update, yesterday security forces managed to destroy the communication apparatus of these terrorists...but why should be this an important news?
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Any update on refugee facilities? Who is heading refugee/IDP program, where are they being hosted?
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Zarb-i-Azb: At least 12 militants killed; 200,000 civilians fled - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
Karachi Rangers kill alleged TTP commander during operation - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
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Any update on refugee facilities? Who is heading refugee/IDP program, where are they being hosted?
Is there any political mileage in doing this service, than I guess political parties would be doing it.. But I guess they have other non issues which are more important to them... So far, Army and some Edhi type organizations are looking after them... Just wait till the dust settle...all will be running and claiming the best service provider to these IDPs