These tribes have been blackmailing Pakistani taxpayers for 60 years. These uncouth smelly dirty animal like humans have resisted all the efforts to bring progress and development in the area.
Pakistani taxpayers paid the ransom money to make sure that Commies in Afghanistan (with help of now-defunct) Ruskies would create an uncontrollable mayhem.
The reality is that modern warfare based on aircrafts and gunships has taken away the myth of so called Afghan warriors.
When we have Karazai as as the little cat mewing in the lap of Uncle Sam, this is the perfect time to go after the tribals in Pakistan too.
As long Pakistan military remains united, these uncouth tribals will be tamed and this area will be allowed to progress and develop.
All those Darra baazi (illegal weapons), tharra baazi (drugs), and Launday baazi (sexual abuse of young boys) will soon be history. Roads, schools, and hospitals, and businesses will flourish, and finally this dark area will come out of the medieval existence.
Troops close in on Darra after fierce clashes
By Munawar Afridi and Abdul Sami Parachahttp://www.dawn.com/2008/01/27/top1.htm
DARRA ADAM KHEL/ KOHAT, Jan 26: Security forces killed 26 militants who had assembled near the Friendship Tunnel, on the Indus Highway, in a fresh offensive on Saturday morning, senior officials said.
In two days of clashes, 59 militants and four soldiers have been killed, the officials said.
Locals said that heavy artillery shelling and firepower from Cobra helicopters rocked the Darra, the largest illicit gun-manufacturing town in the region.
Jets bomb militants’ positions in Waziristan
By Alamgir Bhittani
http://www.dawn.com/2008/01/27/top2.htm
TANK, Jan 26: Jet fighters and ground forces bombed suspected locations of militants in Touda Cheena and other parts of the South Waziristan Agency on Saturday, killing one tribesman and wounding eight others, sources said.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) claimed that troops had started the mopping up of militants’ strongholds in Laddah. A statement said that security personnel had also cleared the Nawazkot area of militants.
The security forces backed by helicopter gunships and tanks had launched an offensive in the Mehsud-dominated areas on Tuesday to purge the area of militants. Infantry units also took part in the operation.