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LOST IDENTITY: Operation in South Waziristan


Preparations are near completion for operation in South Waziristan agency. Chief of Army Staff visited FDL in SWA on Wednesday to boast moral of Troops. He also visited and spent time with officers and men in other agencies.



Army has been given orders to launch ground operation in SWA against TTP. Director General Inter services Public Relations Told media on 14th September that



Director General ISPR Major General Athar Abbas said the government had directed military forces to start their operation in Waziristan and the forces were looking for a suitable time to launch the operation.



According to Sources Pakistan Army Started its Operation against TTP in SWA on 19th June code named Operation Rah e Nijat. Pakistani Strategy was

To soften up the targets through Aerial and Artillery Bombardment.
Complete blockade of South and North Waziristan agency.
Intelligence operations focusing on breaking support base of TTP
Creating friendly Lashkers and Convincing other important Commanders and Maliks to remain neutral


The fruits of Pakistani Strategy have started coming out. Air and Artillery bombardment has damaged the morale of Fanatics. Especially after death of Baitullah Mahsud , leaders of TTP are hiding in caves or have went under ground to escape air attacks.



Blockade and crack down in SWA as permissible under FCR is making Taliban especially Mahsuds frustrated, who are now more willing to cooperate with government. This crack down is not simply being enforced in SWA but is enforced through out Pakistan against rebellious tribes. TTP men belonging to SWA and NWA are being arrested where ever they are found.

Pakistani Intelligence operations are also getting success. Killing of Baitullah Mahsud, Hakeem Ullah Mahsud etc and emerging differences between TTP leader ship are the results of these intelligence operations. Pakistani agencies have successfully broken Alf Khan Bhitani and Shaheen Bhitani from TTP. Both were known as loyal friends of Baitullah Mahsud.

In addition to the two friends of Baitullah Mahsud Changing sides. Turkistan Bhitani and Abdullah Mahsud group along with tribal lashkers are executing bold actions against TTP.

Today TTP men have attacked Peace committee members who were coming from Sarki Khel towards Bannu. This peace committee is formed by Tribal against Taliban. Immediately after this attack, a tribal Malik Jandar Khan Organized tribal Lashkar, who according to Sources have killed more than 10 militants so far and fight is still going on. This clash clearly manifest whats going on in taliban minds.



Many anti Pakistan circles who were critical of Pakistani Policy and Strategy assumed things in bias. Pakistan has only half million army. Most of Pakistani soldiers are deployed on border with India. It’s a necessity which Pakistan has to do weather it likes or not.

US top military commander General Mac Crystal has him self reckoned that Indian presence in Afghanistan and growing influence is source of destability in region.

Pakistani Government has evedence of Indian involvementy in terrorism in its soil. Indian weapons recovered from Taliban and denial of Afghan Taliban to any help to TTP clearly points fingurs towars India.

Most anti Pakistani web sites promoteing Pashtun nationalism and calling pakistani fight against terror have indian marks operated from India or its friendly states.

Propoganda in Indian media over Balochistan also tells whats in indian mind. Pakistan has time and again accused consulate of Jalalabad and Kandahar of promoteing terror in Pakistan.

In July this year senior US official William Burn gave Indian leadership warning to close their consulates in Jalalabad

… visiting US Under-Secretary of State also asked his interlocutors to trim India’s consulate in Jalalabad, which Pakistan sees as a distraction in the military campaign against Muslim extremists on the Afghan border.. .



Presence of Indian Soldiers in cover of Re-construction activities and in addition to 4 consulates, dozens of Indian Information Centers are promoting , equipping and financing terrorist in Pakistani Balochistan and NWFP provinces.

Readers can imagine when India is playing havoc from Afghanistan, what can it do if Pakistan removes its forces from International border with it.?



At present a Corp plus of Pakistan Army is engaged in Swat and Malakand in Counter insurgency operations, a brigade plus in SWA and another in Bajor. Pakistan army with limited resources is giving results.



Army has waited since May to Launch ground offensive in SWA because it wanted to bring Malakand/Swat operation to logical conclusion which by Grace of Allah is near its end.



At a moment when Pakistan is fighting for global war on terror, International media, especially the channels which people think are credible are busy in Pakistan phobic propaganda.



According to report on BBC (which now they have with drawn from their Urdu site) and remained their until Wednesday in which BBC claimed that Tehrik e Taliban Launched a Battalion level attack on night between 20th and 21st September 2009 ,on Pakistan Army’s Check posts in South Waziristan Agency. According to BBC, Spokes man of TTP Molvi Omer Khattab contacted them (there is complete blockade of wireless and Telephone in agency) and told them that Taliban have completely eliminated soldiers in those check posts and claimed he is sure 45 soldiers were killed. Omer Khatab also claimed that they have captured “All” heavy weapons from those two check posts. BBC published the full report without confirming it and when evidence came they removed it without any excuse or apology.



I have written in Past about blunders and yellow journalism of BBC. This blunder is latest in resume of BBC. This news was happily quoted by Pakistan phobic bill Riggio on his anti Pakistan and US power intoxicated blog Longwarjournal.( Interestingly many times the hyperlinks he gives in his reports brings reader to sites which says contrary to what he says).

According to Gulf News

Pakistani forces repulsed two overnight raids by Taliban fighters on security posts in the country’s lawless tribal region near the Afghan border, killing two dozen militants, security officials said yesterday.
More than 100 Islamist insurgents attacked an army post in the Mamasar area of South Waziristan district with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on Monday, triggering hours-long clashes that left one soldier dead and three injured.
“Our troops successfully repulsed the attack and killed at least 10 Taliban while their two vehicles were also destroyed,” said an intelligence official who spoke on the condition of anonymity



Summing up COAS visit reveals the ground situation in SWA. Chief of Army Staff visited the FDL because the area was secure and Forces were in control. The reason for this build up of my essay is “to tell my readers not to trust the lies of BBC or blogs like long war journal. A professional journalist never mixes his own likings and dis likings in his reports”

LOST IDENTITY: Operation in South Waziristan
 
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Thanks bro its our duty to answer and counter the propoganda about our mother land

as a media man I know how channels and News papers interpret facts for their benifits.
we are Pakistanies not slave of any tom dick or harry , so we must not get impressed from westren propoganda and see things according to googles of our national intrest
 
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21th century most mysterious quetion is why US kill their loyal men baitullahh Mehsud.does anybody hve the answer????????????
 
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lol

baitullah was not loyal to any body but to intrests of his TTP

its just stupid to say or think any body works for any body

yes there are tactical relations on basis of give and take

baitullah didnot participated in Afghanistan for which US was lienient on him and tolerated him in his drone attacks

but when US came under pressure in Afghanistan due to its policies and needed help to save its face, it had to satisfy Pakistani demands , so it killed Baitullah Mahsud on Pakistani intelligence report

this game of REALPOLITIK is not a simple game some time an ally on one issue may be bitter opponent on other issues. Groups and governments tends to cooperate tactically for their own Intrests
 
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21th century most mysterious quetion is why US kill their loyal men baitullahh Mehsud.does anybody hve the answer????????????

There is no answer to that because it is a stupid question, asked by only a few people. Some nutcases think Baitullah was an American man. Then again, some people can come up with all kinds of theories to fit their view of the world. Being stupid is not a crime ;)
 
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US Passing of Kerry Lugar Bill angers Talib into attacking Pakistanis


Forces vow not to let militants converge on Mir Ali




Friday, October 02, 2009

From Mazhar Tufail

ISLAMABAD: The disgruntled remnants of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leadership, who have converged in Mir Ali subdivision of restive North Waziristan Agency, have decided to step up their attacks in the country following the passage of the Kerry-Lugar Bill by the US Congress, The News learnt it reliably here on Thursday.

“As the security forces dismantled their network in Malakand, Swat, Dir and other areas, the remnants of the TTP leadership gathered in Mir Ali subdivision of North Waziristan and restored their contacts with the Taliban Movement of Afghanistan,” said a source in security agencies on condition of anonymity.

“They [TTP leaders] held a meeting in Mir Ali region late Wednesday night and decided to step up their attacks on the US diplomats and nationals as well as the diplomats of other countries that are supporting the Kerry-Lugar Bill because they think it will have deep impact on their activities,”
he added.

The source said the TTP leaders also resolved in the meeting to accelerate efforts for targeting the top leadership of the PPP and Awami National Party (ANP). He said, according to the TTP leaders, the US and Nato forces were committing heinous crimes in Afghanistan as well as in Pakistan.

“Some calls of the TTP leaders to the Afghan Taliban have been traced and now the exact location of the callers is being traced to target them,” the source said.

The source said that after the broadcast of a video clip showing dead body of Baitullah Mahsud, the TTP leaders were extremely disappointed and perturbed. He said that it was due to this desperation that they were now thinking to accelerate their terror campaign in the country. He said it was also because of the frustration of the TTP leaders that the outlawed outfit claimed responsibility for suicide bombing in Bannu on Saturday last but stayed short of accepting responsibility for the bombing in Peshawar the same day whereas it was a fact that the TTP was involved in that attack, too. When approached by The News for comments, a spokesman for the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on condition of anonymity that the security forces were aware of the convergence of the TTP leaders in Mir Ali region of North Waziristan. He said they also knew that the TTP leaders were desperately trying to launch massive attacks against the security forces as well as the general public to terrorise innocent citizen
s. “The militants will, however, be eliminated from all parts of the country just like they have been driven out from Swat, Malakand and Dir,” the ISPR spokesman remarked.
 
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the operation in SWA is not going to be the "cake-walk" everybody is assuming it to be - this op is totally different than the Swat/Malakand theater - this is going to be a "slug-fest" and the pakistani nation should get ready as there are going to be casaulties in this ops never witnessed before - one in ten "shaheed" so far is the officer to jawan ratio.

there are ~10,000 militants hiding in SWA/NWA area's and we have no idea how many more will infiltrate from across the border to help their "pashtun brothers-in-arms".

the drones will play a key role in this ops - look for a increase in the daily strike rate as the militant "strongholds" are targeted by drones as well as the PAF fighter jets (F-16s, Mirages and F-7s). the cobra's will provide CAS to the army incursions as they clear and hold the areas. i am not sure if tanks are going to play a major role in this ops but artillery will be heavily deployed and used.

2 divisions (~30,000 troops) are already deployed with another Div in reserve. this is almost a Corps strength operation.

let us all support the efforts of our armed forces whole-heartedly!

Nara-e-haideri !

Pakistan Forces Zindabad
Pakistan Zindabad
People of Pakistan Zindabad
 
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baitullahh Mehsud kill so many groups who fight in afghanistan just because they said real war is in afghanistan.

Agree.

There had been a long conflict between the Taliban of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied operating within Pakistan or against Pak Forces. But Baitullah insisted that it should be done.

It was a hot news sometime ago when TTP issued a list of warriors to leave there area for they denied to fight Pak forces.

KIT Over
 
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Army preparing for S Waziristan offensive: officials

* Intelligence officials refuse to give timeframe, but say required equipment now available at bases in region

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army is readying itself for a major offensive against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in South Waziristan, said intelligence officials on Friday, an operation likely to win US praise – yet face steep challenges.

The three intelligence officials did not specify a timeframe, and the army would not confirm a local newspaper report that the offensive could begin within days. The military still needs a final nod from the government, and is trying to strike deals with some local warlords in the region bordering Afghanistan to support it or at least stay neutral, said the intelligence officials.

The intelligence officers said the army now had the required troops, helicopter gunships, planes and other heavy weapons at three army bases in the region. They said they were awaiting final approval from top authorities.

But Mehmood Shah – a former security chief for Pakistan’s tribal regions – said he had yet to see the sort of military movement necessary to go in full force. Shah said there were more than 20,000 troops in South Waziristan, and a similar number in North Waziristan, but not enough for the task at hand.

“I would say the army has decided a ground offensive, but I do not think it is very close,” he told AP. “I am confident there is nothing like this in the next 15 days.”


The intelligence officials said the government was still negotiating with warlords Maulvi Nazir of South Waziristan and Hafiz Gul Bahadur of North Waziristan. “What the Pakistan Army is working on is that if they both do not announce their support, they should remain impartial,” one said. ap
 
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