Badruddin Haqqani killed in drone strike?

[Devil Soul]

Strong indications Badruddin Haqqani killed in drone strike: US officials
DAWN.COM | 3 hours ago
KARACHI: Senior American officials said there were “strong indications” that Badruddin Haqqani, the operational commander of the Haqqani network, was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan this week, the New York Times reported.

“There are indications that Haqqani has met his demise,” the NYT quoted a senior US official as saying.

The official moreover said that officials were waiting to sift through evidence before they could be certain.

“Badruddin Haqqani has been at the centre of coalition attacks in Afghanistan as well as mischief in Pakistan,” said the official who requested anonymity.

So far Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region has seen five drone strikes in this month and two since Tuesday, the second day of Eid. Drones have struck three targets in Shawal and one attack was carried out in Shna Khwra near Miramshah, the main town in North Waziristan. A total of 38 people have been killed and 15 wounded in the five strikes.

 

[third eye]

NATO: Airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed key Pakistani Taliban figure - The Washington Post

NATO: Airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed key Pakistani Taliban figure


KABUL, Afghanistan — A NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed a dozen militants including a senior leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, the international military coalition said Saturday, dealing a blow to armed extremists operating on both sides of the countries’ porous border.

The strike in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province killed Mullah Dadullah, the self-proclaimed Taliban leader in Pakistan’s Bajur tribal area that lies across the border, late Friday afternoon, coalition spokesman Maj. Martyn Crighton said.

Dadullah reportedly took over after Bajur’s former Pakistani Taliban leader, Maulvi Faqir Mohammed, fled to Afghanistan to avoid Pakistani army operations.

He was responsible for the movement of fighters and weapons, as well as attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, a coalition statement said Saturday. It added that Dadullah’s deputy, identified only as Shakir, was also killed in the strike along with 10 other militants, and that an assessment made in conjunction with Afghan security forces determined no civilians had been killed or injured.

The airstrike was in Kunar’s Shigal district, which lies about 15 kilometers (about nine miles) from the Pakistani border, but Crighton would not say whether an unmanned drone or manned aircraft had launched the missiles.

A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Ahsanullah Ahsan, said Dadullah was killed in a drone strike in Kunar. He said Maulana Abu Bakar has been named as the new chief of the Bajur region.

Pakistani intelligence officials said Dadullah and 19 others were killed in the attack. Initially, they said the strike was on Pakistani territory, but later they conceded it was in Afghanistan.

Militant hideouts along the Afghan-Pakistan border have been a source of tension for both governments as well as for the coalition, with each saying the others are not doing enough to expel the various pro-Taliban factions.

The Pakistani intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, said Friday’s coalition airstrike occurred after a cross-border attack by Pakistani Taliban militants who came from Afghanistan. The Pakistani intelligence officials said the militiamen and army soldiers fought the militants for hours but eventually repelled the attack.

Jahangir Azam Khattak, a local Pakistani government official, said dozens of militants attacked a Pakistani post manned by anti-Taliban militiamen in the Salarzai area of Bajur. He said six militants were killed and four tribesmen were wounded.

However, Crighton said there was no coordination between Pakistani and coalition military leaders on the airstrike.

“This was an independent operation and not associated with any others,” he said.

Taliban-affiliated militants operate on both sides of the porous border, with various groups targeting both coalition forces in Afghanistan and the Pakistani military.

Pakistan has complained of cross-border attacks by militants hiding out in eastern Afghanistan and has criticized Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces for not doing enough to stop them or expel them from Afghan territory.

The U.S. and Afghanistan, however, have long criticized Pakistan for its failure to prevent militants from carrying out attacks in the opposite direction.

A Kunar provincial government spokesman, Wasifullah Wasifi, said four wounded Pakistani citizens have been hospitalized in Kunar and will be questioned about the activities of the Taliban inside Afghan territory.

“They were exactly where this incident happened yesterday, so I am sure they were with these who were killed,” Wasifi said. He added, “We are trying to find out how long these people have been here and why they were here.”

 

[Erhabi]

Drone Strikes are only for those who are attacking US AFghan n NATO forces...they will never hit any TTP commander ..

 

[Amaa'n]

Drone Strikes are only for those who are attacking US AFghan n NATO forces...they will never hit any TTP commander ..

i think you should take a look here http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakistans-war/204321-afghanistan-mullah-dadullah-killed-drone-strike.html

its just one strike but not a bad start either

 

[foxbat]

Drone Strikes are only for those who are attacking US AFghan n NATO forces...they will never hit any TTP commander ..

Why should they? TTP is not attacking NATO..

 

[david blain]

bravo amrika

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Why should they? TTP is not attacking NATO..

right
by that logic you are agreeing with Pakistan not to launch the NW operation?

comment: Pakistan army has not attacked the Haqqani Network
response: Why should they? Haqqanis are not attacking Pakistan army..

 

[david blain]

right
by that logic you are agreeing with Pakistan not to launch the NW operation?

comment: Pakistan army has not attacked the Haqqani Network
response: Why should they? Haqqanis are not attacking Pakistan army..

IRFAN bhai dont u think that is why they havent attecked NW yet ...OR not willing to ...

 

[KRAIT]

Why should they? TTP is not attacking NATO..

If US don't take out Pakistan's enemy then why should they expect action against Pakistan's enemy.

Quid Pro Quo.

That's the only way to get rid of the situation. And mind you if India makes peace deal with Pakistan and stop using non-state actors against Pakistan, they will start attacking India and its interest in Afghanistan, which may be used by Pakistan at that time.

Best way is to support each other to take out all the terrorist entities. We also have stake in Afghanistan and CAR nations. SO does US and other countries for whom Pakistan is the gateway. All the nations involved in Afghanistan have to work together.

Unless, NATO doesn't want stable Pakistan.

 

[surya kiran]

This is not possible without ground based intelligence input. Some part of the Pak intelligence network would have provided inputs officially or un-officially.

And if the above is not the case and the Americans have used their own humint then it has serious repercussions.

 

[foxbat]

That's the only way to get rid of the situation. And mind you if India makes peace deal with Pakistan and stop using non-state actors against Pakistan, they will start attacking India and its interest in Afghanistan, which may be used by Pakistan at that time.

Do not understand this..Specially the bold part...

right
by that logic you are agreeing with Pakistan not to launch the NW operation?

No.. I just repeated what most members here say when US makes a demand of PA going after Haqquanis ..

 

[tarrar]

It's not confirm this news is only from US that they have got him.

 

[Oldman1]

It's not confirm this news is only from US that they have got him.

No the Pakistanis are also discussing about it. Not just from U.S.

Drone strike may have killed Haqqani network leader - Yahoo! News

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A CIA drone strike in Pakistan may have killed the operational commander of the Haqqani network, the insurgent group behind some of the most high-profile attacks on Western and Afghan government targets in Afghanistan, Pakistani intelligence officials and militant sources said on Saturday.

The officials said Badruddin Haqqani, who is also believed to handle the network's vital business interests and smuggling operations, may have been killed during a drone strike this week in Pakistan's tribal North Waziristan region.

One senior Pakistani intelligence official said Badruddin had fled a compound that he and other militants were in after it was hit by a missile, then was killed by a second drone strike on a car that he was in.

There was no official word on Badruddin's fate from the Haqqani network. Other intelligence officials were more cautious.

"Our informers have told us that he has been killed in the drone attack on the 21st but we cannot confirm it," said one of the Pakistani intelligence officials.

 

[KRAIT]

Do not understand this..Specially the bold part...

India's hand in extremism in Pakistan. We would be naive if we don't accept India has nothing to do with growing anti-Pakistan attacks.

 

[foxbat]

India's hand in extremism in Pakistan. We would be naive if we don't accept India has nothing to do with growing anti-Pakistan attacks.

You mean moral and diplomatic support or something else