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5 soldiers embrace shadat in Baluchistan and ten in total in last 48 hours

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Namaz-e-Janaza of Captain Muhammad Fahad Khan, who embraced shahadat yesterday in IED Blast near Kahan #Balochistan, was offered at Army Graveyard Rawalpindi, today.
A large number of senior civil and military officers, soldiers, citizens and relatives of shaheed attended the Namaz e Janaza. Shaheed was buried with full military honour.

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Anyone see the best of the best SSG ? 6 soldiers were killed in various attacks, I bet BLA must be so scared of SSG coming to get them... 8 bomb blasts in 24 hours, itni incompetent tu shayed Somilia ki forces bhi nai hun gi.
 
Anyone see the best of the best SSG ? 6 soldiers were killed in various attacks, I bet BLA must be so scared of SSG coming to get them... 8 bomb blasts in 24 hours, itni incompetent tu shayed Somilia ki forces bhi nai hun gi.
Can you summarize the Balochistan conflcit in one sentence? Because I can and it will make all these comment’s irrelevant.
 
Can you summarize the Balochistan conflcit in one sentence? Because I can and it will make all these comment’s irrelevant.
Weakness. (Of the state/LEA/Army) your choice.
 
May Allah grant heaven for their sacrifices.
Ameen

What is Pakistan army's response to this? We need to send in the Howitzers to the Afghan border and warming it up. Indian sponsored Terrorists have the momentum and must be stopped.
 
Weakness. (Of the state/LEA/Army) your choice.
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Balochistan is some 347,190 km2 with a population of 12 million give or take which comes out to 36 per every sq km spread alomg disparate lines of which some barely 1% may be actual radicalized separatists that you don’t have the manpower, funds nor national coherence to find and quell.

Blaming it one entity is both futile and also looking to one entity as the savior since they are the same bumbling DNA as the rest.

Btw - the Turkish conflict with the PKK is still ongoing as well even though they took a much more tougher line than Pakistan has with its neighbors harboring Baloch separatists
 
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Balochistan is some 347,190 km2 with a population of 12 million give or take which comes out to 36 per every sq km spread alomg disparate lines of which some barely 1% may be actual radicalized separatists that you don’t have the manpower, funds nor national coherence to find and quell.

Blaming it one entity is both futile and also looking to one entity as the savior since they are the same bumbling DNA as the rest.

Btw - the Turkish conflict with the PKK is still ongoing as well even though they took a much more tougher line than Pakistan has with its neighbors harboring Baloch separatists
And let’s be honest, there is injustices in Balochistan. I have personally spoke to Baloch from Balochistan and they do face injustices. However, these aren’t always the states fault it’s sardars too but the sardars doing most of the oppression while blaming Pakistan to make the people more angry at us. But the state also has its injustices in Balochistan. In any western country, Sui would have became a major city due to the gas located there. As someone from interior sindh (Sanghar district) where there is the largest gas fields in sindh, I see many oil and gas drilling sites but I know many who aren’t provided gas. And this is sindh where I personally seen with my own eyes villages that don’t have gas yet gas being drilled from their area. Pakistani state has its far share of injustices in Balochistan we can’t deny. Just look at Gwadar now, any sane person would agree the locals demand is legitimate that illegal trawlers shouldn’t be allowed to fish there. Trawlers in general destroy marine life and especially if you don’t have a proper policy in place it will destroy the coast. Yet today I seen on news it was all out attacking the protesters in Gwadar for their legitimate demands. We create the conditions for militancy to take place and india exploits that and keeps it alive and active through its funding and aid.
I’m anti Baloch terrorist groups and Pakistani patriot but we shouldn’t let our patriotism blind us and ignore the actual injustices happening there. Heck even Punjab suffers injustices in many areas in rural central Punjab and all of South Punjab. Just imagine Balochistan’s situation.
 
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And let’s be honest, there is injustices in Balochistan. I have personally spoke to Baloch from Balochistan and they do face injustices. However, these aren’t always the states fault it’s sardars too but the sardars doing most of the oppression while blaming Pakistan to make the people more angry at us. But the state also has its injustices in Balochistan. In any western country, Sui would have became a major city due to the gas located there. As someone from interior sindh (Sanghar district) where there is the largest gas fields in sindh, I see many oil and gas drilling sites but I know many who aren’t provided gas. And this is sindh where I personally seen with my brown eyes villages that don’t have gas yet gas being drilled from their area. Pakistani state has its far share of injustices in Balochistan we can’t deny. Just look at Gwadar now, any sane person would agree the locals demand is legitimate that illegal trawlers shouldn’t be allowed to fish there. Trawlers in general destroy marine life and especially if you don’t have a proper policy in place it will destroy the coast. Yet today I seen on news it was all out attacking the protesters in Gwadar for their legitimate demands. We create the conditions for militancy to take place and india exploits that and keeps it alive and active through its funding and aid.
I’m anti Baloch terrorist groups and Pakistani patriot but we shouldn’t let our patriotism blind us and ignore the actual injustices happening there. Heck even Punjab suffers injustices in many areas in rural central Punjab and all of South Punjab. Just imagine Balochistan’s situation.
Absolutely - injustice is the hallmark of an insurgency. Most separatist movements are based upon some injustice that wasn’t justly acknowledged or quelled smartly otherwise a lot of states would still be facing issues.
 
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Balochistan is some 347,190 km2 with a population of 12 million give or take which comes out to 36 per every sq km spread alomg disparate lines of which some barely 1% may be actual radicalized separatists that you don’t have the manpower, funds nor national coherence to find and quell.

Blaming it one entity is both futile and also looking to one entity as the savior since they are the same bumbling DNA as the rest.

Btw - the Turkish conflict with the PKK is still ongoing as well even though they took a much more tougher line than Pakistan has with its neighbors harboring Baloch separatists
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When we had relatively peace in Pakistan, from 2016 up until 2020 why didn't we moved forces from FATA to Balochistan to root out Terrorism there ?
How many Terrorism incident Turkey faces ? they often launch Air strikes against PKK, they hunt them down in Syria. How many times we even launch a operation within our own territory (Balouchistan) ? ZERO...

I am not blaming any one entity, I am just showing our Army worshipers the mirror that the people/soldiers they worship as some GODS are failures of the highest order, SSG has become a joke Special force which loses men in almost every operation against BLA/TTP, many countries are dealing with Terrorism within their borders, so its not like SSG is fighting Iron man or Aliens, we have to admit that their training and gears are horrible and than we have that stupid idea where our soldiers make stupid decisions in battlefield to achieve shahdat, I'd rather prefer them to stay alive and live to fight for another day. You have USA Delta Force, Seals , SAS etc look at their death rate per operations and than compare it with SSG, heck even Indian regular Army did better in Kashmir than our Super duper SSG, you really expect they hold any chance doing cross border raids against India ?
 
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When we had relatively peace in Pakistan, from 2016 up until 2020 why didn't we moved forces from FATA to Balochistan to root out Terrorism there ?
How many Terrorism incident Turkey faces ? they often launch Air strikes against PKK, they hunt them down in Syria. How many times we even launch a operation within our own territory (Balouchistan) ? ZERO...

I am not blaming any one entity, I am just showing our Army worshipers the mirror that the people/soldiers they worship as some GODS are failures of the highest order, SSG has become a joke Special force which loses men in almost every operation against BLA/TTP, many countries are dealing with Terrorism within their borders, so its not like SSG is fighting Iron man or Aliens, we have to admit that their training and gears are horrible and than we have that stupid idea where our soldiers make stupid decisions in battlefield to achieve shahdat, I'd rather prefer them to stay alive and live to fight for another day. You have USA Delta Force, Seals , SAS etc look at their death rate per operations and than compare it with SSG, heck even Indian regular Army did better in Kashmir than our Super duper SSG, you really expect they hold any chance doing cross border raids against India ?
The US SOCOM respects the SSG - lets leave it at that before we go all usual emotional without any knowledge of the subject matter. You sound just ignorant and disrespectful - you are working professional who is looking to improve himself, don’t go down the typical ignorant Pakistani rabbithole of either angel or devil and rather understand the subject before commenting.

Western special forces do take casualties as well

Please see this article from 2019: US military casualties 2019

Where it states “Of 13 deaths last year in Afghanistan, nine were special operators and their enablers and three were troops on advising missions killed by insider attacks. All but one combat casualty — a special operations airman — belonged to the Army.”

And then https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/special-operators-account-for-half-of-all-us-combat-casualties/

Where it states
Special operations units continue to bear the brunt of the fighting and casualties. During the past two years, 15 special operators were killed in active operations, making up 50 percent of all U.S. combat casualties. These numbers become even more impressive if you consider that SOCOM makes up only 3 percent of the US military. But it also shows that special operations units have been the go-to choice for US policymakers for almost any contingency. “


That doesn’t reflect on the performance of SOCOM but the nature of close combat and the operational theater.

Keep in mind that SOCOM has infinitely more resources than the entire Pakistani military in every branch including SPD but then they also operate in multiple theaters and gain the additional knowledge and experience from those.

Now, as far as losing men are concerned - the terrain in which the Pakistan Military operates against the TTP and BLA are both extremely suited to guerilla warfare along with having sympathy among local population.

Much like SOCOM, SSG are a go to choice for commanders to maximize the chances of success in an operation while trying to minimize casualties both of their own and of civilians.

More importantly, both the US SOCOM and SSG place high emphasis on avoiding collateral damage at the expense of their own lives which is why you see SSG casualties.

There is also greater preparedness and general morale is higher with SSG as expected with higher troop quality which is why during Rah e Nijat - while regular troops were slightly nervous as they went in SSG literally would push them back and jump in - whether they were seen alive again or not. This is no different from Green Berets who performed the same during US operations Green Beret Feats just so everyone understands feats of bravery, excellence and sacrifice aren’t exclusive to Pakistan.

So , that answers your diatribe on whether SSG takes casualties because of poor performance and invalidates your usage of western special forced as some example of where it never happens.
However, much as the green beret heroics in Vietnam and Afghanistan could not save the conflicts the same applies to BLA/ TTP because using kinetics alone cannot solve insurgencies with local support and unlike Turkey the Pakistani state has no capacity nor funds to take the fight to safe havens in Afghanistan and Iran.

I understand the (Anaozubillah) Bismilmran ar Akbar ar Masih ul Azeem people are angry(rightfully so) at the recent events and the establishments role in it which is dubious and self serving - but that is no excuse to become mindless hateful drones that spout nonsense without thought.

It’s a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought with speaking the truth
 
The US SOCOM respects the SSG - lets leave it at that before we go all usual emotional without any knowledge of the subject matter. You sound just ignorant and disrespectful - you are working professional who is looking to improve himself, don’t go down the typical ignorant Pakistani rabbithole of either angel or devil and rather understand the subject before commenting.

Western special forces do take casualties as well

Please see this article from 2019: US military casualties 2019
I would love to read some Article or need some sort of evidence about the bold part, Trust me bro Source won't cut in here. I don't sounds Ignorant and disrespectful I am actually Ignorant and disrespectful for many people here, but trust me anyone who thinks that feeling is mutual. But as Ben shapiro once said FACTS doesn't care about your/my feelings. So lets talk on FACTS rather than calling names. It will take less than 30 mins for me to just search for SSG combat operations for just past couple of years and the numbers of death will be in 20's.

Now the link you give, it talks about SF trainers deaths plus inside Attacks, I am talking about combat deaths. Plus the link is talking about the figures from 2019, how many operations US forces conducted successfully without losing a single men ?


This is how SF operates, deep within enemy territory, killed the target, saved the civilians and without a single loss. How many SSG operations ended like this ?

Keep in mind that SOCOM has infinitely more resources than the entire Pakistani military in every branch including SPD but then they also operate in multiple theaters and gain the additional knowledge and experience from those.
Now I am hearing this from many posters here, budged/money is what causing our SSG to die in combat, really ? What about Strategy and Planning ? Of course I am ignorant of SF procedures but even someone like me have common sense that if I lose 2 men in a operation, I will surely make sure I will study the mistakes and my strategy to make sure this doesn't happen to again, we have seen SSG is literally same combat situations and yet they lose men. Now of course real life fighting is difficult and one bullet to the head or various parts of your body and you are dead, but question if SSG will lose men than why don't we just send regular Army ? these SSG go through hard training sessions, state spend thousands of dollars on their overseas trainings so they can perform, you can defeat 7-10 exhausted Terrorists even with Sindh Police, of course Sindh police will also lose men, we call the SSG so we minimize not just civilian deaths or maximize the Terrorists deaths but to save lives of our regular soldiers.
I said this before, Its not about the money or budget but its about the utilization of that money is what matters.

Now, as far as losing men are concerned - the terrain in which the Pakistan Military operates against the TTP and BLA are both extremely suited to guerilla warfare along with having sympathy among local population.
Americans and ISAF forces faced much worse terrain in Afghanistan, and other countries have faced far worse situations in Syria/Libya/Somalia/Iraq, Have you read about Falujjah ? Countless examples can be brought in from Iraq and Afghanistan, where SF came out on top against the Terrorists without losing a single men.

There is also greater preparedness and general morale is higher with SSG as expected with higher troop quality which is why during Rah e Nijat - while regular troops were slightly nervous as they went in SSG literally would push them back and jump in - whether they were seen alive again or not. This is no different from Green Berets who performed the same during US operations Green Beret Feats just so everyone understands feats of bravery, excellence and sacrifice aren’t exclusive to Pakistan.
SSG has a history of losing its men, I read some where here that SSG has the most men compared to any SF of any country, so does that means that Army is just increasing the numbers of Commando's in SSG, are we really filling up Quantity over Quality ? This fight and hostage situations are nothing new for Pakistan or its army/SSG if they are still losing men over operations which they have trained on, or experienced off than I think its time to start questioning the top leadership of SSG.
Bhai time for morale boosting is gone, right now we have to hit terrorists hard with minimum loss on our side, we have to kill 3 Terrorists for 1 of our regular soldier than and only than we might have chance. As for Sacrifice is concerned I have no issue with Soldiers fighting for their country and achieving Shahdat but they should be taught to kill the enemy and live to fight for more rather than becoming Jazbati or emotional and just make reckless decisions in combat operations, American/NATO soldier step foot in combat to kill the enemy so he/she can protect his/her country and go back to their families, our soldiers think themselves as sunny deol and jump in battles without proper gear or strategy (I guess) and ended up dying.

My conclusion to this is that SSG has been a failure or failed to perform against the TTP/BLA, Its bitter but it is truth. Pakistan's SSG might be in top 5 who's SF lost most men in combat operations, I think that SSG needs to pay more attention to their training, gear and equipment and more on achieving Martyrdom, there should be a inquiry that needs to be done. And if SSG unable to keep their losses to minimum than I think we should just not call them in every operation and let the regulars take lead cause they will the job just fine. And all that raise a serious question on their ability to perform any operations behind enemy lines (Indian Territory) God forbid if war happens we will have no SF unit that is capable enough to do operations behind the enemy lines of sabotage etc.
 
I would love to read some Article or need some sort of evidence about the bold part, Trust me bro Source won't cut in here. I don't sounds Ignorant and disrespectful I am actually Ignorant and disrespectful for many people here, but trust me anyone who thinks that feeling is mutual. But as Ben shapiro once said FACTS doesn't care about your/my feelings. So lets talk on FACTS rather than calling names. It will take less than 30 mins for me to just search for SSG combat operations for just past couple of years and the numbers of death will be in 20's.

Now the link you give, it talks about SF trainers deaths plus inside Attacks, I am talking about combat deaths. Plus the link is talking about the figures from 2019, how many operations US forces conducted successfully without losing a single men ?


This is how SF operates, deep within enemy territory, killed the target, saved the civilians and without a single loss. How many SSG operations ended like this ?


Now I am hearing this from many posters here, budged/money is what causing our SSG to die in combat, really ? What about Strategy and Planning ? Of course I am ignorant of SF procedures but even someone like me have common sense that if I lose 2 men in a operation, I will surely make sure I will study the mistakes and my strategy to make sure this doesn't happen to again, we have seen SSG is literally same combat situations and yet they lose men. Now of course real life fighting is difficult and one bullet to the head or various parts of your body and you are dead, but question if SSG will lose men than why don't we just send regular Army ? these SSG go through hard training sessions, state spend thousands of dollars on their overseas trainings so they can perform, you can defeat 7-10 exhausted Terrorists even with Sindh Police, of course Sindh police will also lose men, we call the SSG so we minimize not just civilian deaths or maximize the Terrorists deaths but to save lives of our regular soldiers.
I said this before, Its not about the money or budget but its about the utilization of that money is what matters.


Americans and ISAF forces faced much worse terrain in Afghanistan, and other countries have faced far worse situations in Syria/Libya/Somalia/Iraq, Have you read about Falujjah ? Countless examples can be brought in from Iraq and Afghanistan, where SF came out on top against the Terrorists without losing a single men.


SSG has a history of losing its men, I read some where here that SSG has the most men compared to any SF of any country, so does that means that Army is just increasing the numbers of Commando's in SSG, are we really filling up Quantity over Quality ? This fight and hostage situations are nothing new for Pakistan or its army/SSG if they are still losing men over operations which they have trained on, or experienced off than I think its time to start questioning the top leadership of SSG.
Bhai time for morale boosting is gone, right now we have to hit terrorists hard with minimum loss on our side, we have to kill 3 Terrorists for 1 of our regular soldier than and only than we might have chance. As for Sacrifice is concerned I have no issue with Soldiers fighting for their country and achieving Shahdat but they should be taught to kill the enemy and live to fight for more rather than becoming Jazbati or emotional and just make reckless decisions in combat operations, American/NATO soldier step foot in combat to kill the enemy so he/she can protect his/her country and go back to their families, our soldiers think themselves as sunny deol and jump in battles without proper gear or strategy (I guess) and ended up dying.

My conclusion to this is that SSG has been a failure or failed to perform against the TTP/BLA, Its bitter but it is truth. Pakistan's SSG might be in top 5 who's SF lost most men in combat operations, I think that SSG needs to pay more attention to their training, gear and equipment and more on achieving Martyrdom, there should be a inquiry that needs to be done. And if SSG unable to keep their losses to minimum than I think we should just not call them in every operation and let the regulars take lead cause they will the job just fine. And all that raise a serious question on their ability to perform any operations behind enemy lines (Indian Territory) God forbid if war happens we will have no SF unit that is capable enough to do operations behind the enemy lines of sabotage etc.
How many SSG operations are you aware of?
 

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