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Operation Rah-e-Nijat (South Waziristan)

""Army working towards development of S Waziristan""

This is such a cruel joke. Gomal Zam, Tank-Wana Road are old projects being carried out since the time of Z A Bhutto.

Army is working for the US for peanuts, is not able to charge the right price, and thus incapable of doing any meaningful infrastructure works in Pakistani territory that it has treated as a captured enemy territory.

When was the last time you travelled on Tank-Wana road? ever been to South Waziristan?


I suggest you take a trip... it will help enlighten you !

And you should probably also take a look at the works of FWO before complaining about anything...
 
When was the last time you travelled on Tank-Wana road? ever been to South Waziristan?


I suggest you take a trip... it will help enlighten you !

And you should probably also take a look at the works of FWO before complaining about anything...

He is more happy by sitting abroad and hurling insults on the people who are defending and dying to protect this country and its people.

So don't take such people seriously, waste of time.
 
Forces perish six militants in SWA

WANA: Six militants killed and several injured during retaliatory action of security forces in South Waziristan Agency (SWA).

According to sources, militants attacked security checkpoint with rockets and automatic weapons in Pash Ziarat area in suburb of Wana. Three security men martyred and eight others wounded in the attack. In reply, six militants killed and several injured in retaliatory action of security forces.

Forces perish six militants in SWA - GEO.tv
 
Army to stay in S Waziristan: Peshawar Corps Commander

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Corps Commander Peshawar Yasin Malik said on Saturday that the army will stay in South Waziristan until locals strengthen their grip in the area.

Talking to the media in Dera Ismail Khan, Yasin Malik advised internally displaced people to take charge of the security in their areas once they return home. He said the army will ensure that militants do not return to South Waziristan.

The Peshawar Corps Commander said IDPs will return to their homes in three phases. The registration process for their return is underway in DI Khan.

Malik also paid a visit to the IDP camps to check arrangements and meet the displaced persons.

Army to stay in S Waziristan: Peshawar Corps Commander – The Express Tribune
 
Hey, why dont you people ignore this guy?

You know he is here with vested interests, then why the effort?
 
Security forces kill 20 terrorists in Waziristan: ISPR

PESHAWAR, July 10 (APP): Security forces successfully repulsed a late night armed attack by the Taliban fighters on a security checkpost in South Waziristan agency and in the ensuing gun battle mowed down 20 terrorists.

A spokesman for ISPR told APP that the militants attacked a security forces checkpost late last night which the law enforcers repulsed effectively and inflicted heavy casualties on the terrorists.

Six soldiers were injured in the attack. The fleeing terrorists left behind bodies of 12 militants, he added.
 
Clashes break pause in S. Waziristan; 38 militants killed

LADDAH: Fighting erupted between security forces and militants in South Waziristan on Friday and Saturday, leaving 32 terrorists dead, officials said.

Six security personnel also lost their lives in fierce clashes that took place in the area after a long pause in violence.

Thirty-five security men were reported injured in Karwan Manza, Pash Ziarat and Dwa Toi areas dominated by the Mehsud tribe.

Militants resumed attacks at a time when the government is making arrangements to send over 300,000 displaced people of the Mehsud tribe back to their homes.

The registration process for displaced people started a few days ago at relief camps in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank districts.

Officials said militants attacked a check-post in Dwa Toi area at around 11am on Saturday, injuring 18 security men. Security personnel, backed by helicopter gunships, returned fire and killed 14 militants. The officials said that bodies of four militants had been taken into custody.

The heavy exchange of fire continued till evening. Another check-post in Karwan Manza came under militant attack in which three security personnel were killed.

Government forces repulsed the attack killing 12 militants. The counter-offensive also left 17 security personnel injured.

Six militants and three security personnel were killed in a clash in Pash Ziarat area on Saturday afternoon after terrorists attacked a convoy.

The political administration in Ahmadzai Wazir has asked tribes to expel foreign and local militants from the area or face action.

At a jirga in Wana on Saturday, Assistant Political Agent Abdul Ghafoor Shah asked tribal elders to abide by the peace deal signed between the government and tribes in 2007.

The officials said that foreign and local militants had sanctuaries in the area, adding that tribesmen are required to take action against militants in accordance with the agreement.

DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Clashes break pause in S. Waziristan; 38 militants killed
 
Three soldiers and 25 Taliban killed in S Waziristan clashes

PESHAWAR: Three Pakistan Army troopers were martyred as Taliban attacked security forces in South Waziristan Agency, sparking clashes in which 25 militants were killed, officials said on Saturday.

“Militants attacked an army patrol in Makeen district of South Waziristan late on Friday in which three soldiers were killed and eight wounded,” a security official said.

Taliban fighters also attacked a security post in Kaniguram valley, 30 kilometres north of the region’s main town of Wana overnight, injuring five soldiers, another security official said.

Military officials said the security forces launched retaliatory strikes, killing 25 Taliban in the two areas.

South Waziristan Agency, considered a stronghold of militants and headquarters for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was the scene of a major government offensive against the insurgents last year.

The TTP is a major force behind a bombing campaign that has killed more than 3,500 people across Pakistan in three years.

The US has branded the rugged tribal area on the Afghan border a global headquarters of al Qaeda and the most dangerous place on earth.

Militants based in the tribal terrain attack US-led forces across the border in Afghanistan, where the Afghan Taliban are waging a nearly nine-year insurgency to evict the estimated 140,000 foreign troops. afp

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
 
GUNNER / Taimikhan:

I have traveled from Miran Shah to Wana via Razamak. Continued on to Zhob via Tanai. There is a road going from Tanai to Jandola (which you probably refer to as Wana-Tank 8-Lane Expressway.

FWO does a pretty good job of Raod building. Their continuous work on KKH is commendable. Gilgit-Mastuj road and Naran-Babusar-Chilas roads are masterpieces.

In the context of South Waziristan the sheer scale of devastation is simply incredible. The lollipop of resurfacing of a few roads cannot be a fair compensation for the killings and massive uprooting of the population.

Yes I am stationed abroad, socalled non-Resident Pakistani. I have more commitment to the State of Pakistan than the non-Pakistani Residents around here.

Should it be really necessary for PA to keep Americans in good humor, the leadership should ask for the right price. I am not questioning the moral or nationlistic justification of killing Pakistanis on Pakistani soil; beyond a certain level of decline everything becomes fair and proper. All I am saying is "ask the right price for the Desecration of the territorial integrity of Pakistan.
 
GUNNER / Taimikhan:

I have traveled from Miran Shah to Wana via Razamak. Continued on to Zhob via Tanai. There is a road going from Tanai to Jandola (which you probably refer to as Wana-Tank 8-Lane Expressway.

FWO does a pretty good job of Raod building. Their continuous work on KKH is commendable. Gilgit-Mastuj road and Naran-Babusar-Chilas roads are masterpieces.

In the context of South Waziristan the sheer scale of devastation is simply incredible. The lollipop of resurfacing of a few roads cannot be a fair compensation for the killings and massive uprooting of the population.

Yes I am stationed abroad, socalled non-Resident Pakistani. I have more commitment to the State of Pakistan than the non-Pakistani Residents around here.

Should it be really necessary for PA to keep Americans in good humor, the leadership should ask for the right price. I am not questioning the moral or nationlistic justification of killing Pakistanis on Pakistani soil; beyond a certain level of decline everything becomes fair and proper. All I am saying is "ask the right price for the Desecration of the territorial integrity of Pakistan.

There are two roads going to Wana from Jandola, one is through the Meshud territory, which was paved way back, the other one is the road which by passes the mehsud territory, going through the Gomal Zam dam area, which was not paved and the Wazir tribe had been asking for opening this route as they were dependent on the Mehsud tribe support for letting in the supplies and people, thus they could not go against the Mehsud tribe. This is the road which needs pavement as well as opening resulting in Wazir tribe to be free from depending on just one road which the Mehsud tribe controlled.

And only major roads & routes were somewhat paved, not all the ones in that area. Thus the road construction is necessary for whole region and easy movement.

And as for your other writing, sorry i don't agree with what you have to say about yourself and the patriotism you are trying to show.

Nobody has the right to attack innocent Pakistanis by using these tribal areas for no matter what reason, if they do, they are liable to be killed as this is not jihad. As for Afghanistan, they have no right to use this land for fighting in another country. If they are so eager to fight, they should do it in Afghanistan from Afghanistan, not by using Pakistan and then kill thousands of Pakistanis saying this is for Allah.
 
Pakistan's Tribesmen Have Nowhere To Turn

By Daud Khattak
There is a Pashtu proverb that says, "Water usually breaks the weaker bank." This bit of folk wisdom captures what is happening in Pakistan's Waziristan tribal agency, where the government and its security forces -- after months of futile struggle to eliminate the Taliban -- are now forcing displaced Ahmadzai Wazir tribesmen either to hand over the militants or face the government's wrath.

Ironically, the government's ultimatum to the displaced tribesmen comes at a time when officials of the political administration (a colonial-era legacy to suppress the unruly tribal people) don't dare venture into the area despite all the resources at their disposal.

But the poor Ahmadzai Wazir tribesmen -- like the residents of the other tribal areas generally -- have been caught between a rock and a hard place for years. Following the overthrow of the Taliban regime in late 2001, the land inhabited by the tribal people was essentially leased out to Al-Qaeda and other foreign militants who had fled Afghanistan. These militants subdued the locals and later suppressed them by means of a homegrown version of "the Taliban," who claimed to be defenders of religious purity and the honor of the land.

Long Beleaguered

In fact, since 2001, the Wazir and Mehsud tribesmen of the South and North Waziristan tribal agencies have been virtually enslaved by, on the one hand, Al-Qaeda and their Taliban supporters and, on the other, the security forces and the state political administration. People who were once fully independent to live under their own tribal customs and traditions, including the resolution of disputes through jirgas, had now lost their liberties even in personal matters because of the oppressive presence of foreign and local militants carrying out the most barbaric acts on tribal lands.

Clearly, no sane person could imagine that these people -- uprooted and bullied for years by the Taliban and Al-Qaeda -- would be able to capture the militants and hand them over to the authorities. Obviously if they had such power, they would never have allowed the militants to take over their homes, take them hostage, trample their traditions, and so on.

Officials of the political administration -- the office responsible for controlling the situation in the tribal areas -- are asking the tribesmen to do what they themselves -- with all their money and other resources -- have been unable to do: Face down the Taliban.

Under Article 40 of the colonial-era Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR), a tribesman may be kept in jail indefinitely by the Political Agent and a whole tribe or sub-tribe may be held responsible for any disorder in its area. But even this outrageous law was only applicable when the institutions of the jirga (assembly of tribal elders) and of malaks (nominated elders) was intact and able to regulate events.

Blood And Chaos

Now, however, tribal elders are being killed or silenced, while the jirga has been taken hostage by the Taliban and their foreign "guests." According to the best estimates, more than 700 malaks, elders, and influential tribal leaders have been shot, beheaded, blown up, or tortured to death since these "guests" (Arabs, Chechens, Uzbeks, and others) arrived in the Wazir and Mehsud areas and other tribal agencies.

In addition to the targeted killings of malaks and other tribal leaders, there have been many instances in which jirgas were targeted by explosives and suicide bombers. In a July 9 attack in the Mohmand agency, several key tribal leaders, including local jirga head Malak Sahibzada (along with scores of ordinary civilians) were brutally killed in a massive bombing.

This, of course, has created a vacuum in the tribal areas, paving the way for the domination of Taliban commanders such as Nek Muhammad (now dead), Baitullah Mehsud (now dead), Hakimullah Mehsud (reportedly killed, not confirmed), Abdul Wali (alias, Omar Khalid), Mullah Toofan, and many others. To make matters worse, since the beginning of military operations in the region, the office of Political Agent has been virtually paralyzed.

The result has been chaos that was fully exploited by the militants to strengthen their hold over locals who were already frustrated by decades of neglect by the state. Instead of rescuing the tribesmen from this nightmare, the authorities have subjected them to drone attacks, artillery barrages, and aerial bombing.

Now the government is insisting that the tribesmen hand over the militants. And they are supposed to do this while living in tent cities and standing in endless queues for food aid from the UN and other agencies.

Pakistan's Tribesmen Have Nowhere To Turn - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2010
 
Displaced Mahsuds set to return to homes in S Waziristan

Monday, July 26, 2010
Phased repatriation to start in second week of August

By Rahimullah Yusufzai

PESHAWAR: The civil and military authorities are planning to start sending the first batch of displaced Mahsud tribespeople to their villages in South Waziristan by the second week of August.

“We want to return 30,000 to 40,000 displaced persons to their homes in the first phase. We hope they would be able to celebrate Eidul Fitr in their villages,” a senior military official told The News.

South Waziristan’s political agent Syed Shahab Ali Shah said 44,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been registered at centres in Tank, Dera Ismail Khan, Wana and Razmak and their repatriation would start soon. The registered IDPs are being issued cards that would facilitate their return and ensure payment of cash compensation and supply of food rations and other relief goods.

Almost the whole Mahsud tribe inhabiting roughly half of the vast South Waziristan tribal region was displaced due to the military operation launched in their area against the militants in October last year. Most of them have been living in Tank and Dera Ismail Khan districts located close to the militancy-stricken South Waziristan Agency, though many have shifted to Peshawar and even Karachi, where the Mahsuds have traditionally migrated to find work and do business such as trucking and other forms of transportation.

There are no camps for the IDPS from South Waziristan. The tribal people didn’t want to live in tented camps where maintaining privacy is well nigh impossible. The displaced families have been living mostly in rented houses or with relatives. Some own houses in Tank and Dera Ismail Khan as many Mahsud families migrate to the warmer plains in winters when it snows in their mountainous villages in South Waziristan.

Exact figures aren’t available, but some Mahsud households stayed back in their villages despite the obvious dangers due to the military operations and the US drones targeting militants in the remote and forested parts of the area. But most of the Mahsud-populated areas of South Waziristan were emptied of inhabitants, providing the military an opportunity to go after the militants without worrying about ‘collateral damage.’ Not all the displaced families could be registered and this is the reason that widely divergent figures of 160,000 people getting uprooted from South Waziristan to more than 300,000 have been mentioned on different occasions.

Though the militants have been occasionally and increasingly attacking security forces entrenched in the deserted Mahsud towns and villages, the military authorities are confident that the conditions were now right to allow repatriation of the displaced people. In fact, the repatriation was to take place by spring or early summer, but it was delayed due to a host of reasons, one being security concerns and the other the protracted negotiations between the Mahsud tribal elders and the South Waziristan administration regarding the terms to which the tribe would have to adhere after repatriating to their villages.

One of the terms is to take responsibility for security of their villages and not to harbour the wanted militants. Mahsud tribal elders who took part in these negotiations said they had agreed not to let any militants or outsiders take refuge in their villages and to deal with them on their own or seek government help in tackling them. They call this time-honoured tribal security arrangement “chalweshti” though it is being referred to as village defence committees by the military authorities. The tribal chieftains said they won’t be responsible for security beyond their villages and would not be held accountable for anything happening in the nearby mountains.

Along with the village defence committees, the government is raising a Levies force from among the Mahsud tribe to provide overall security in the area. The security forces would stay deployed in South Waziristan and it isn’t clear for how long. In fact, the new security arrangement comprising village defence committees ringed by the Levies force and then by the army troops would be tried when the IDPs return to the Chagmalai, Barwand, Maula Khan Serai and Spinkai Raghzai areas.

Displaced Mahsuds set to return to homes in S Waziristan
 
Pakistan's Tribesmen Have Nowhere To Turn

By Daud Khattak
There is a Pashtu proverb that says, "Water usually breaks the weaker bank." This bit of folk wisdom captures what is happening in Pakistan's Waziristan tribal agency, where the government and its security forces -- after months of futile struggle to eliminate the Taliban -- are now forcing displaced Ahmadzai Wazir tribesmen either to hand over the militants or face the government's wrath.

Ironically, the government's ultimatum to the displaced tribesmen comes at a time when officials of the political administration (a colonial-era legacy to suppress the unruly tribal people) don't dare venture into the area despite all the resources at their disposal.

But the poor Ahmadzai Wazir tribesmen -- like the residents of the other tribal areas generally -- have been caught between a rock and a hard place for years. Following the overthrow of the Taliban regime in late 2001, the land inhabited by the tribal people was essentially leased out to Al-Qaeda and other foreign militants who had fled Afghanistan. These militants subdued the locals and later suppressed them by means of a homegrown version of "the Taliban," who claimed to be defenders of religious purity and the honor of the land.

Long Beleaguered

In fact, since 2001, the Wazir and Mehsud tribesmen of the South and North Waziristan tribal agencies have been virtually enslaved by, on the one hand, Al-Qaeda and their Taliban supporters and, on the other, the security forces and the state political administration. People who were once fully independent to live under their own tribal customs and traditions, including the resolution of disputes through jirgas, had now lost their liberties even in personal matters because of the oppressive presence of foreign and local militants carrying out the most barbaric acts on tribal lands.

Clearly, no sane person could imagine that these people -- uprooted and bullied for years by the Taliban and Al-Qaeda -- would be able to capture the militants and hand them over to the authorities. Obviously if they had such power, they would never have allowed the militants to take over their homes, take them hostage, trample their traditions, and so on.

Officials of the political administration -- the office responsible for controlling the situation in the tribal areas -- are asking the tribesmen to do what they themselves -- with all their money and other resources -- have been unable to do: Face down the Taliban.

Under Article 40 of the colonial-era Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR), a tribesman may be kept in jail indefinitely by the Political Agent and a whole tribe or sub-tribe may be held responsible for any disorder in its area. But even this outrageous law was only applicable when the institutions of the jirga (assembly of tribal elders) and of malaks (nominated elders) was intact and able to regulate events.

Blood And Chaos

Now, however, tribal elders are being killed or silenced, while the jirga has been taken hostage by the Taliban and their foreign "guests." According to the best estimates, more than 700 malaks, elders, and influential tribal leaders have been shot, beheaded, blown up, or tortured to death since these "guests" (Arabs, Chechens, Uzbeks, and others) arrived in the Wazir and Mehsud areas and other tribal agencies.

In addition to the targeted killings of malaks and other tribal leaders, there have been many instances in which jirgas were targeted by explosives and suicide bombers. In a July 9 attack in the Mohmand agency, several key tribal leaders, including local jirga head Malak Sahibzada (along with scores of ordinary civilians) were brutally killed in a massive bombing.

This, of course, has created a vacuum in the tribal areas, paving the way for the domination of Taliban commanders such as Nek Muhammad (now dead), Baitullah Mehsud (now dead), Hakimullah Mehsud (reportedly killed, not confirmed), Abdul Wali (alias, Omar Khalid), Mullah Toofan, and many others. To make matters worse, since the beginning of military operations in the region, the office of Political Agent has been virtually paralyzed.

The result has been chaos that was fully exploited by the militants to strengthen their hold over locals who were already frustrated by decades of neglect by the state. Instead of rescuing the tribesmen from this nightmare, the authorities have subjected them to drone attacks, artillery barrages, and aerial bombing.

Now the government is insisting that the tribesmen hand over the militants. And they are supposed to do this while living in tent cities and standing in endless queues for food aid from the UN and other agencies.

Pakistan's Tribesmen Have Nowhere To Turn - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2010
All the tribal people fault.They're now paying the price and rightfully so IMHO.Reading this makes me sick.How illiterate these people are to lease space to AQ/Taliban? and when Army comes they start crying we signed agreement in 1947 you don't enter our land blah blah.Well then you handle the drones yourself too.These people have no sum game - You can't enter our land - You still have to provide us protection- and lets not forget Jirga
system which is technically the most worst justice system i have ever witnessed.Women are pressed under his law.
 
Three security men, 10 militants killed in clash

LADDAH: Three security personnel were killed and 10 others suffered injuries when militants attacked a convoy in the Pash Ziarat area of South Waziristan here on Tuesday evening, intelligence sources said on Wednesday.

The convoy was going from Shawal in South Waziristan to Razmak in North Waziristan when it came under attack near the Pash Ziarat area.



The security forces countered the attack and exchanged fire with the militants for about two hours. At least 10 militants were killed during the clash.

Sources said that the security forces in the Razmak camp resorted to heavy mortar fire to target the militants in the area.

However, the information about the clash and the killing of security personnel and militants could not be verified from officials of the Inter Services Public Relations in Islamabad. Several attempts made by this correspondent to contact the ISPR officials remained futile.

According to locals, an official of the bomb disposal squad was injured when an explosive device he was trying to defuse went off in the Speen Jamat locality near Pash Ziarat.
 
Looks like the reports of a Talib comeback in South Waziristan are correct. I mean, an ambush happens only when someone is strong enough in terms of manpower and has consolidated posutions
 
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