Waziristan militants vow to attack inside Afghanistan

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The militants have peace agreements with the Pakistani government since 2007.

What should Pakistan do about any attacks by these Waziristani tribesmen against Afghanistan and its allies?

  1. Provide shelter and sanctuary to the militants in Pakistan, protecting them from Afghanistan and NATO forces, using the Pakistani army to fight against any Afghanistani or NATO effort to retaliate against these militants?
  2. Allow Afghanistan and NATO to attack these tribesmen inside Pakistan, if the tribesmen attack Afghanistan and NATO?
  3. Pakistan should break its peace agreement and attack the militants if they attack Afghanistan and NATO?
  4. Try and talk the militants into not attacking Afghanistan and NATO?

Two militant groups based in the Waziristan region of Pakistan say they will co-ordinate attacks against coalition forces inside Afghanistan.

There are frequent reports of cross-border raids by the groups, who are led by commanders from the Wazir tribe.

Both the groups have had peace deals with Pakistan’s government since 2007.

Their decision to liaise comes amid assertions by the government that it will act more firmly against Pakistani groups fighting in Afghanistan.

The two militant groups who have agreed to work more closely together are led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur in the North Waziristan tribal region and Mullah Nazir who is based in South Waziristan.

The consultative committees of the two groups decided to conduct joint attacks against coalition troops in a meeting held on Monday in the North Waziristan town of Miranshah, Mullah Nazir confirmed to the BBC Urdu service.

“The purpose of this union is to boost the holy war against the infidels,” a spokesman, Mufti Abu Haroon, told the BBC.

Both groups oppose the presence of Central Asian militants in their areas, but their policy towards Arab fighters has remained vague.

Mullah Nazir shot to prominence in March 2007 when he led a Wazir tribal force to evict Central Asian militants from the Wana region of South Waziristan.

His campaign was backed by Pakistani troops based in the region.

The government also entered an accord with the North Waziristan militants led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur following clashes between them and the security forces in the summer of 2007.

Both groups publicly admit to fighting inside Afghanistan.

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5) attain assurances from nato/us of their longterm plans, use these assurances to broker a peace deal

the pashtun resistence is based mainly about the presence of foreign troops. if a peace deal is made prior to any major scarring, a commitment from the pashtun groups/ taliban can be attained regarding the use of afghan land for 'international' terrorist purposes

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Threatening attack is crime by itself. The crime has been committed inside Pakistan, therefore the govt of Pakistan is duty-bound to arrest those that made the thread and punish them.

If that does not happen within a reasonable timeframe (say 2 to 4 weeks) Afghanistan and allies will be in the right to go into Pakistan and punish these terrorists, pre-emptively.

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Pakistan should not attack militants, rather let NATO deal with it and break ALL agreements with tribes, no security for them, no support.

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Kill both the leaders promptly.

Anything else would put Pakistan in complicity with these thugs and in violation to UN Security Council resolutions against the Taliban.

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That's actually an excellent idea.

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KK bro! That's a bad idea to let NATO "manage" your house. This is not good in the eyes of those who would like to maintain territorial integrity of our country.

If you want to see FATA area as part of Pakistan, then Pak government has to impose its writ.

If you want to see FATA to be independent, then off course you can let NATO bomb/negotiate etc. with NATO.

Timepass
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^ it may be a bad idea in normal times but clearly Pakistan has proved incapable of handling the mess internally.

Multiple governments have each of them dithered between fighting and negotiating with al qaeda /militia / taleban

The army has proved untrustworthy against these, to the point of laying down arms and allowing themselves to be abducted. If this much is public info, what are the chances that the army is actually supplying them and perhaps even joining them? Very high.

There is huge huge power vacuum at the federal level in Pakistan. Zardari, Musharaf and Nawaz are effectively check mating each other and it will take a very very long time (or a mishap) to break this log jam. There are no other people-recognized leaders that have emerged in a decade!

The one factor that held people together till last year was the economic reports - fact or fiction, most Pakistani's thought something was going right. But now it seems atleast part of the story was doctored, inflation is out of control (only partly due to the oil) and so it won't be long before the public turn real nasty.

And then people like A.Q.Khan, Iftikhar and Imran Khan always hold a tantalizing match that could strike some chord somewhere to blow a large hole.

It is very fragile and likely to break. The al Qaeda/ Taleban / militia / religious crowd is getting ready and when there's a blow up, ready to take over.

That is why they should be dealt with and only foreign troops headed by the US are capable of that

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Wrong!

US is incapable. It is being defeated on the Afghanistan front as well as Iraq.

For US to enter Pakistan and invade any part of it, will only unite the country and US will then become the common enemy.

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It's going to happen anyway, just the matter of time. And unlike Afghanistan or Iraq, America's objectives will be to just bomb the area from the air.

Rukshati
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US is not wrapping up fast enough in Afghanistan but it certainly is NOT losing anything. The ONE reason even for that delay is the double-face of Pakistan military and intelligence which are assisting and enabling the terrorists across the border. There are videos of Al Qaeda recruiting fighters in Pakistan.

Once US military starts operating within Pakistan openly, this recruitment stops, the second face of the military and ISI etc will be wiped out next.

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Aren't you the one who blasted all tribals as terrorists? I think its time Pak gov gives ultimatum to all tribal leaders to either support Pakistan and cleanse themselves of terrorists or Pakistan cut ties with them and let NATO deal with them! FATAs are not actual "Pakistan" anyways since we do not control that area, they don't follow our rules so why blacken our eye for them?

Leap Year
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^ that presupposes Pak govt wants to cleanse Pakistan of terrorists. History has proven otherwise