A report from some months ago, but now increasingly relevant. This is the reality of the fight against foreign fighters in the Pakistan Tribal Areas. The Uzbeks particularly have committed heinous atrocities against the local Pahstun people who are now rising up against these terrorists.
Uzbeks outstay Pashtun welcome
Pakistani authorities have imposed an indefinite curfew on a part of the northwestern region after five people died in escalating clashes with Taliban fighters. The violence began on Monday when police clashed with Taliban recruiters outside a high school in the town of Tank, leaving a local Taliban leader and a policeman dead. Clashes last week between pro-government tribesmen and Uzbek fighters in parts of South Waziristan left 160 people dead, 130 of them foreign fighters, officials said. Until a few days ago, there was fierce fighting in and around Wana in South Waziristan – but now the ethnic Uzbeks have been driven out of town. Tribal Pashtuns are looking for Uzbek fighters – once their comrades, now their enemies. The Pashtuns are famous for their hospitiality – but their Uzbek guests have exhausted their patience. “We welcomed these people as long as they would abide by our customs but they committed atrocities against our people,” said one tribal leader. Uzbek fighters linked to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan fled here after the US-backed war in Afghanistan six years ago. At first they were welcomed, but simmering tensions between locals and guests boiled over after Uzbek militiamen fired upon a tribal leader, killing two of his brothers. More than a hundred Uzbeks and locals died in the fighting which followed.
Prison find
Now Pashtun militia commanders, so often at loggerheads with the distant Pakistan government, have agreed on a ceasefire with the authorities. And at a tribal council, or loya jirga, they agreed to instead turn their anger on the Uzbeks. The tribesmen overran a compound used as a prison by the militants. They say it housed 18 dungeons where Uzbek militants reportedly held 200 local tribesmen. The tribesman say they found at the prison holes in the ground where Uzbeks poured boiling water to torture their captives. Others were decapitated - an Uzbek speciality, according to the locals. Not far away the Pakistan military occupies positions behind the high walls of ancient fortresses. So far they have waited on the sidelines but people here feel they must now come to the help of the locals. Pakistani officials say that they will intervene to help the tribesmen if required. But the conflict is not yet over – and today this remains the Pashtun frontline against Uzbek fighters.
[quote] The tribesmen overran a compound used as a prison by the militants. They say it housed 18 dungeons where Uzbek militants reportedly held 200 local tribesmen. The tribesman say they found at the prison holes in the ground where Uzbeks poured boiling water to torture their captives. Others were decapitated - an Uzbek speciality, according to the locals.
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The above shows what kind of crazy murderous animals the Pashtunn tribals and the Pak Army is fighting.
Uzbeks. ** The tribesman say they found at the prison holes in the ground where Uzbeks poured boiling water to torture their captives. Others were decapitated - an Uzbek speciality, according to the locals.**
May be we should have people take a brain test before we embrace them in islamic brother hood.
"The Uzbeks are believed to have killed more than 1,500 local tribesmen in the past two years and are blamed for kidnapping others."
The war in Waziristan is not against fellow Muslims, but bloodthirsty murderers like the Uzbeks, Chechens, Tajiks and other foreigners camped in our territories, and backed by some local elements.
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Well wahabi's or whatever, some misguied people see these butchers in FATA as fellow Muslims whom we should not confront. Some Muslims these Uzbek murderers are!
