These murderous cowards make my blood boil. No restraint should be exercised in finding and flushing them out.
These FC soldiers were captured on Dec 23rd when their position was attacked by overwhelming numbers of Taliban. Perhaps the only silver lining in this is that gross crimes like this will help persuade other FC personnel who are fighting in an unwinnable battle that it is better to fight to the last bullet and hand-to-hand if needs be until you are killed than surrender to the Taliban. Better to die as a lion than be meekly slaughtered like a lamb.
PESHAWAR: Militants belonging to theTehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Thursday killed 15 Frontier Constabulary (FC) soldiers that they had kidnapped following an attack on the fort at Mullazai in Frontier Region Tank on December 23.
“We killed all the 15 FC men in our custody on Thursday morning. It was revenge for the January 1 operation by Pakistani security forces on our people in the Karamna area of Landikotal tehsil in Khyber Agency. They had killed 12 of our fighters including Commander QariKamran in that operation,” TTP spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said.
He called this correspondent from somewhere in the tribal areas and warned that the government should soon expect another similar reaction from the Taliban to avenge the deaths of five other fighters killed by security forces in the Zhob district in Balochistan on Wednesday.
The five TTP militants, including Habibullah Mahsud, said to be a senior Taliban commander, along with Yasin were killed in a clash with security forces and local people in Zhob on Wednesday. Some reports said the militants were trying to kidnap a doctor from Zhob when local people and security forces challenged them and killed them in the ensuing clash. The bodies of the five slain militants were transported and buried in Tiarza tehsil of South Waziristan on Thursday.
The TTP spokesman said the bodies of all the slain FC personnel were thrown in Speen Thall area of Hangu district after being executed in Thall. The Thall tehsil administration and FC officials later recovered the bullet-riddled bodies of the FC men and took them to the military hospital sited in the Thall Fort. By evening their bodies were brought to Peshawar where their collective funeral prayers were offered at the FC offices in Hayatabad town.
Senior security officials including senior FC officers, the Inspector General of Police and Noorul Haq Qadri, MNA from Khyber Agency, attended the Nimaz-e-Janaza. Qadri is the spiritual figure for the Mullagori tribe to which the slain FC men belonged. Their bodies were later sent to the Mullagori area in Khyber Agency for burial.
All the villagers, including women, children and the elderly, came out of their houses to receive the bodies of their near and dear ones. A resident of Mullagori, Ali Bahadur told The News that most of the slain men belonged to the same village and were relatives. “The entire Mullagori tribe is in mourning. I have never experienced such a huge shock in my life,” he said, adding that some of the slain men were lone breadwinners for their families.
Ashrafuddin adds from Landikotal: It was in Mullagori that villagers had raised a tribal lashkar and offered tough resistance to militants. Some of the slain FC men were identified as Subedar Bawar Khan, Naib Subedar Aliamir, Havaldars Jan Afzal and Badshah Khan, Naik Zabita Khan, Lance Naik Nisar Gul and Sepoys Muhammad Aslam, Khan Talab, Shafiur Rahman, Shakeel Gul, Talif Khan, Rahid Khan, Amjad Ali, Muhammad Arif, Ajeem Shah, Aziz Ali and Rawanullah. Asmatullah Shaheen, a senior TTP commander, claimed responsibility for the attack and kidnapping of the FC men and said it was in reaction to the US drone attack on October 26, 2010 in which a TTP Commander Taj Gul and 21 other militants were killed in South Waziristan.
Taliban sources said that Qari Kamran, who was killed in a clash with security forces in the Karamna area of Khyber Agency along with 11 other militants, was affiliated with the senior TTP Commander Tariq Afridi, who is the head of the militant group’s operations in Darra Adamkhel and Khyber Agency.
The taleban are animals like we know, but these taleban say that the fc has been killed because in a recent raid they arrested some women and children too (which was the first in that area). This could be wrong, maybe used as a justification for their action.
TTP is the wing of CIA operating in Pakistan with complete support and help from RAW. You will never see the Afghan talibans supporting the CIA backed Pakistani talibans whose only aim is to destroy a muslim country that is, Pakistan so that the americans can come and occupy it.
We, the Pakistani qoum only gets angry if its the American soliders that kill our troops, our troops (and ordinary citizens) are "fair game" for anyone who says Allah u Akbar before slitting the throats or blind folding them and making them standing them in front of guys with AK 47, or blows up a car or a sucicde vest right next to people buying groceries in the bazaar and people trying to make a living in the bazzar or kids going to school. All, in the name of god!
After all, in Stratigic depth we trust in and these are small sacrifices that Pakistanis have to make to gain the strategic depth.
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محترم
اس ظالمانہ حملے جس ميں پندرہ پاکستانی فوجيوں کو ہلاک کيا گيا ہے کی مذمت کرنے کے بجاۓ آپ بغير کسی ثبوت کے يہ الزام لگا رہے ہیں کہ ٹی ٹی پی کو امريکہ کی حمايت حاصل ہے۔
کيا آپ جانتے ہیں کہ ستمبر 1 2010 کو امريکہ نے تحريک طالبان پاکستان کو ايک بيرونی دہشت گرد تنظيم قرار ديا اور حکيم اللہ محسود اور ولی الرحمن کو “خصوصی عالمی دہشت گرد” قرار ديا۔ تحريک طالبان پاکستان کو ايک دہشت گرد تنظيم کا درجہ ديے جانے کے بعد اس تنظيم کی حمايت يا اس سے ميل ملاپ ايک جرم ہے اور امريکی حکومت اس تنظيم سے متعلق کسی بھی اثاثے کو منجمند کرنے کی مجاز ہے۔ اس کے علاوہ امريکی اسٹيٹ ڈيپارٹمنٹ نے ان دونوں افراد کی حدود واربعہ سے متعلق معلومات مہيا کرنے پر 5 ملين ڈالرز کا انعام بھی مقرر کيا۔
امريکی سيکرٹری آف اسٹيٹ اس طرح کے انعام کے اعلان کا صرف اسی صورت ميں مجاز ہوتا ہے جب کسی ايسے شخص کی گرفتاری کے ليے معلومات درکار ہوں جو يا تو اپنے اعمال، منصوبہ بندی، سازش، امداد يا ترغيب کے ذريعے امريکی املاک يا افراد کے خلاف عالمی دہشت گردی کی کاروائ ميں ملوث ہو۔ بيت اللہ محسود پر انعام کا اعلان اور تحريک طالبان پاکستان نامی تنظيم کو دہشت گرد قرار ديا جانا اس بات کا واضح ثبوت ہے کہ امريکی حکومت نے ہميشہ اس تنظيم کو اپنے شہريوں کے ليے براہراست خطرہ سمجھا ہے۔
اگر آپ گزشتہ چند برسوں کے دوران بيت اللہ محسود سميت تحريک طالبان پاکستان کے سرکردہ قائدين کے بيانات پڑھيں تو آپ پر يہ واضح ہو جاۓ گا کہ ان کی جانب سے تواتر کے ساتھ امريکہ کی حدود کے اندر دہشت گردی کی کاروائيوں کی دھمکی موجود تھی۔
مارچ 2009 سے ايک مثال
ايسی کوئ قابل فہم وجہ موجود نہيں ہے جو اس بے بنياد الزام کو تقويت دے سکے کہ امريکی حکومت کيونکر ايک ايسی تنظيم کی حمايت کرے گی جو کہ نا صرف يہ کہ خود ہمارے اپنے فوجيوں کے ليے براہرست خطرہ ہے
بلکہ پاکستان سميت دنيا بھر ميں ہمارے اتحاديوں کے لیے ايک تسليم شدہ دشمن کی حيثيت رکھتی ہے۔
We, the Pakistani qoum only gets angry if its the American soliders that kill our troops, our troops (and ordinary citizens) are "fair game" for anyone who says Allah u Akbar before slitting the throats or blind folding them and making them standing them in front of guys with AK 47, or blows up a car or a sucicde vest right next to people buying groceries in the bazaar and people trying to make a living in the bazzar or kids going to school. All, in the name of god!
After all, in Stratigic depth we trust in and these are small sacrifices that Pakistanis have to make to gain the strategic depth.
True. Then the jahil qoum refuse to believe Pakistani's can cause their own problems.
Pakistan has suspended the privileges of kabulkhel tribe of north Waziristan and stopped paying the salaries of class 4 officers including levies and khasadars, as they couldn't secure their area. The bodies of 15 fc people were found in their area.
I have two questions regarding this:
1) what's the responsibility of Pakistan army if they consider it the responsibility of a particular tribe to have ensured the event wouldn't have occurred
2) why give collective punishment to the whole tribe due to the wrong doings of a few, and we don't know that yet even if the tribe was directly involved in that or not
This arrogance of our army has played a big role in the situation we are in now.
This is what an honest ex solider gets for doing his job even after he has retired. so lets keep supporting religious goons in the name of Stretegic Depth as we still got about 200 Million Pakistanis to pay small price for it in next few years (if not decades). **snowy_winter ** this started before 9/11 so I presume, CIA was also funding all this?
Warning****: Its a very graphic story.
***Waiting to receive pieces of daughter’s dead body ***
**Soldier stops a bomb attack, kids kidnapped, one butchered **
She was bitterly crying on phone begging for her life in the captivity, as she had seen her 16-year-old brother on a CD being slaughtered by kidnappers and pieces of his dead body were sent to her father by them some six years back.
Where criminals are so powerful that they manage to make the law enforcement agencies helpless and paralyse the system, the only way left for people like Shamsul Anwar is to obey them. What he did for the nation against terrorists and what he got in return from the nation on saving lives of hundreds of worshippers in a mosque as a Pakistani is a big question.
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six … countdown has started on the turn of his daughter to be slaughtered by the captors as the poor father is not in a position to pay them a huge ransom of Rs1.8 million. But he is mentally ready to receive pieces of his daughter. The captors have given him a deadline for payment of ransom and warned that his daughter would be slaughtered if he fails to meet the deadline of January 12, 2012. “Be ready to receive the pieces of your daughter too,” they warned. God forbid, he would face another doomsday on January 12, if he fails to pay the ransom.
When he was asked, the captors linked with some terrorist outfits, would kill his daughter on the publication of this report, he said, “This is my last attempt to save the life of my young daughter. In either way, I am mentally prepared to receive another gunny bag filled with pieces of my daughter’s remains.”
“I beg for the life of my young daughter from judicial, political, military and government bosses. I am a voiceless man,” Shamsul Anwar said. The only question left is whether he should proud to be a Pakistani after he was facing the trauma of life-spoiling attacks by the ‘terrorist outfits’.
The victim narrating his shocking tale told ‘The News’, “I am Shamsul Anwar and has served in the Pakistan Army as a ‘Lance Naik’ in 24-Baloch Regiment for over 17 years and got retired in 1992.
“I hail from Khasar Tang, Balool Khail, Tehsil and District Nowshera, and settled in Dhoke Gujran, Misrial Road, Rawalpindi, after my retirement as my father was running a construction business in Rawalpindi, but I preferred the transport business. I, later, included seven public transport vehicles, including cabs, in my squad and built two houses in the neighbourhood and rented out three portions while kept one portion with me to live with my wife and nine children, including two twin daughters — Madina Anwar and Mubin Anwar, 14 — and seven sons — Mohammad Yaseen Anwar, 16; Faizullah, 14; Sajid Anwar, 12; Wahed Anwar, 11; Abubakr Siddique, 9; Ibadat Anwar, 7, and 4-year-old Mohammad Mustafa.
“It was 1st of January, 2001 when I entered the Jamia Masjid of Dhoke Gujran at Misrial Road, Rawalpindi, at about 2:10 p.m. when the ‘imam’ was reciting ‘khutba’ and I was late. I rushed to the basement of the mosque to perform ablution (‘wazu’) where I saw a man who was planting some explosives packed in a steel box and he was busy in plugging wires into the detonation device. As I was an army personnel and had been serving with bomb disposal unit, I sensed the danger. I clutched the ‘terrorist’ from the back without asking any question or giving him any warning as he had plugged one wire into the device and remaining three were in his hands and he was about to put it into the detonator. I started shouting for help but nobody listened to my cries as the ‘khutba’ was being recited on the loudspeaker. In the meantime, the terrorist, carrying a gun, asked me to leave him otherwise he would shoot me but I refused to free him and entangled my left leg in between his two legs as he could not somersault me. After he observed that I was not going to release him, he started firing aiming at my leg and emptied his revolver. I sustained three bullets in my left leg and remaining three missed.
“Meanwhile, some worshippers gathered there and grabbed him as I told people that his revolver was empty. The terrorist warned me that he would teach me a lesson and make me an example. I was shifted to the CMH and the ‘terrorist’ was taken to an undisclosed place by the agencies. As many as 17 terrorists of the outfit were arrested on information provided by the nabbed ‘terrorist’. I remained under treatment for about a month and sent home with a team of security personnel of the army commanded by a JCO. The security personnel remained with me for about a year and protected my family and me stringently. Finally, the security was withdrawn.
“After about five years of the episode, the ‘terrorist outfit’ decided to take revenge and kidnapped my two sons — Mohammad Yaseen, 16, a student of 10th class, and Faizullah, 14, a 9th class student of Noor School in Dhoke Gujran — on May 15, 2006 from their school in the presence of teachers and students in broad daylight. The captors were three in number.
“I rushed to the Westridge Police Station but the SHO humiliated me and refused to take up the case, terming it a concocted story. Then, I had no option but to seek help from army where I had served for over 17 years. I contacted the Army Centre and went to BRC Centre in Abbottabad but they couldn’t help me out.
“In the meanwhile, the ‘terrorists’ contacted me on my mobile number in November 2006 after about six months of the kidnapping of my sons and demanded Rs1.4 million as ransom for the release of my sons with the threat that they would kill my sons if I informed police. I again decided to contact my ex-department and went to the commander of 4-Corps, Peshawar, who listened to me kindly and referred me to the commander of 11-Corps in Peshawar. The corps commander took immediate action and asked the political agent ¶ to take action against the ‘terrorist outfit’ active in Kurram Agency. When I met with the PA, he suggested to pay them ransom so that they could arrest the captors red-handed after the safe release of my sons but in the case of direct raid, they could kill my sons. The suggestion was good but not feasible for me, as I had not so much amount to pay the ransom to get my sons free from their trap. I remained in Kurram Agency for three days and the ‘terrorists’ kept eye on my activities as I visited the office of PA regularly. However, I came back to Rawalpindi and started collecting the amount from different sources.
“After a long pause, the captors contacted me on my mobile phone at 4 p.m. in the last week of November 2006 and said that I had cheated them and played smart against them, saying that as a reprimand, they are sending me the dead body of my son. They asked me to lift the remains of my son in a gunny bag from Shally Valley at Misrial Road. I took some neighbours with me without informing police, as police was not cooperating with me, and traced the gunny bag at about 9 p.m. lying in the low-lying area with a CD. He was my eldest son, 16-year-old Mohammad Yaseen Anwar who was slaughtered and cut into pieces. They also sent a video in which they captured the scenes of slaughtering and sawing. They put Yaseen alive on the saw-machine (wood-sawing machine) and sawed him into two pieces from middle of his head in front of my younger son 14-year-old Faizullah.
“Another episode started when the captors contacted me a couple of weeks after the burial of my son and repeated their demand of Rs1.4 million ransom with warning that my second son would be killed if I failed to meet the deadline. I had no option but to pay them ransom because I had no nerve to receive another gunny bag containing the pieces of my second son because I had found the law enforcement agencies very weak and the criminals very powerful who threw the remains of my son in my area after killing him. However, I sold out my house and some vehicles to meet the demand of ransom. So, I left for Peshawar on their direction and reached near Haji Camp in Peshawar where they asked me to wait but as I reached there, they asked me to reach Kurram Agency. I hired a taxi and arrived at the said location. In their next call, they asked me to leave the taxi and walk straight in a street where a red car was parked, put the money in the red car and wait for our next call. I followed their directions and started waiting for their call. After a few hours, they asked me to get my son from a low-lying area near mountains (Kala Paharh) in Kurram Agency. I rushed to the tip-off place but found nothing. I kept running here and there for three days but couldn’t trace my son. Finally, they informed me that my son was standing near main entrance of Kurram Agency and I found him there. He was burning with high fever when I got him. I took him to Rawalpindi and contacted the corps commander, Rawalpindi, who directed me to take the boy to the Corp Headquarters, Lahore, and finally admitted to the CMH where the doctors diagnosed blood cancer because the captors have injected intoxicating medicines into his body during one-year detention. I met Imran Khan for providing help in the treatment. He gave me Rs20,000 with a reference chit for Shaukat Khanum Hospital but the administration gave me the estimate of Rs1.2 million for the treatment. However, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan helped me a lot and provided financial assistance for the treatment of my ailing son. I came back to Rawalpindi and again contacted the surgeon general who told me that the only treatment was ‘bone marrow transplant’ which costs Rs3.2 million. I collected the money after selling my whole property for the surgery, which was successful.”
This was not the end of the miserable and painful story of Shamsul Anwar. The ‘terrorists’ again hit him and kidnapped his 14-year-old daughter, Madina Anwar on May 17, 2011 from her school at Misrial Road and shifted her to Kurram Agency. He reported to police and lodged a complaint with the SSP but they did nothing.
After a couple of days, he received a call from the captors who demanded Rs1.8 million for her safe release. “I am sick and tired, having no resources to generate finances.”
But Shamsul Anwar is still looking for a miracle and waiting for help from the heavens amidst cries of his daughter, who is in captivity. The brave man is waiting for the climax of the unending horrific tale. He can be contacted on his mobile phone number 0346-5524259 for any kind of help.
There are hundreds of such crimes that make it very clear that terrorists have national loyalty. Far far more Pakistanis have been killed by these so called 'islamic terrorist groups' than NATO/USA collateral losses by drones. Yet people like zaid hamid, snowy_winter etc continue blindly and probably wilfully lying to the people that this is done by CIA/Mossad/RAW etc. Such lying only gives the orgs such as ISI to continue their support liasions with the terrorists!
^^ sad thing is that we generally say that its the un-educated, poor, lower or middle class people who dont protest against and support these religious goons, where as the ground reality of Pak is different. It is the educated upper middle or upper business class that provide a silent support to these goons and have done that for last 20 or so years.
The taleban are animals like we know, but these taleban say that the fc has been killed because in a recent raid they arrested some women and children too (which was the first in that area). This could be wrong, maybe used as a justification for their action.
They had to kill and pass anything for an excuse, I wouldn't trust any of their words.
They had to kill and pass anything for an excuse, I wouldn't trust any of their words.
Agree, They kill first and then later look for reasons to justify their actions. Worst thing is majority of Pakistanis (in particular the areas where those killing happens) would blindly believe in the reasons those killers give.
How many peace pacts, how many promises of not harming innocent people have been made by several different religious extremist groups in past? Tooo Many for me to remember
Good to see on twitter (**#**ShamsulAnwar](https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23ShamsulAnwar)) this case is quite hot and people are contributing to help the father to arrange the ransom for their daughter.
http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/22/taliban-video-speaks-of-revenge-on-military.html
Taliban video speaks of ‘revenge on military’
**DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Fifteen soldiers stood blindfolded, handcuffed to each other on a barren hilltop as one of their bearded Taliban captors held an AK-47 rifle and spoke with fury about revenge. He left no doubt what would come at any second.
**The Taliban kidnapped the paramilitary troops on Dec 23 from near the country’s tribal areas to avenge military operations. Now they have released a video as a warning to the army.****“Twelve of our comrades were besieged and mercilessly martyred in the Khyber Agency (area),” said the militant.
“Our pious women were also targeted. To avenge those comrades, we will kill these men. We warn the government of Pakistan that if the killing of our friends is not halted, this will be the fate of you all.”
Before death, one of the men described how dozens of Taliban fighters stormed their fort in the northwestern Tank district and kidnapped the soldiers.
“They attacked us with rockets, killed a sentry. One ran away. The Taliban entered the fort and captured us with our weapons,” he said, sitting in rows with other soldiers with their arms folded and legs crossed in front of Taliban banners.
“They tied our hands, put us in a Datsun and took us away.”
The video then shows the men standing quietly. Taliban chanting can be heard. “We will cross all limits to avenge your blood,” it said, referring to fighters killed by security forces.
One of the men shoves a clip into his assault rifle and fires a few rounds into the back of the heads of a few of the soldiers. “God is greatest,” the Taliban yell.
Other fighters step up and take turns pumping bullets into the men, some wearing green military uniforms. Each time a soldier collapses, the man standing next to him is pulled in that direction by the handcuffs.
After the shooting ends in the video, the Taliban militants stare at the bodies slumped over on the earth. “If the killing of our friends is not stopped, this will be the fate of all infidel armies, God willing,” says one militant.
Majeed Marwat, a commander of the Frontier Corps said morale among his men would always remain high despite such videos. “Our soldiers enlist because they want to sacrifice for the country. We are taking care of the families of the martyred soldiers,” he said.—Reuters.
