Mehsud militants agree to leave NWA

[Mujahid]

PESHAWAR: Following successful talks between Hafiz Gul Bahadur and Hakimullah Mahsud-led banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Mahsud militants along with some Punjabi Taliban have finally started leaving North Waziristan for the adjoining South Waziristan tribal region.

Tribesmen were astonished when they saw markets in Miramshah, the principal town of North Waziristan, and Mir Ali, the second major town, almost deserted as the Taliban were conspicuous by their absence.

“Almost 98 per cent of the Mahsud militants along with some Punjabi Taliban have left North Waziristan. Before leaving, announcements were made from loudspeakers in mosques of various villages by the Mahsud Taliban to thank the tribespeople of North Waziristan for their cooperation and assistance to the displaced Mahsud militants,” said a source close to the North Waziristan Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bahadur. According to sources, Hafiz Gul Bahadur and his shura or council was upset over the deteriorating law and order situation in North Waziristan as it felt it was posing serious threat to regional security.

The sources said the government and military authorities had made it clear to Hafiz Gul Bahadur and his men to choose between the military operation or expulsion of Mahsud and Punjabi Taliban from North Waziristan. The sources said a committee was later formed which held extensive talks with the Mahsud Taliban to apprise them about the potential danger for the people of North Waziristan due to their presence there.

The Jirga also conveyed apprehensions of the people of North Waziristan caused by reports about the looming military operation in the region and appealed to them to leave their area before the government could launch any action.

The Taliban Jirga also informed the Mahsud militant commanders about their peace accord with the government and told them they would not like it to be violated. Hakimullah Mahsud and his deputy Waliur Rahman were reported to have accepted Hafiz Gul Bahadur’s request and decided to leave North Waziristan.

“Most of them went to Shaktoi and Makeen in South Waziristan where they had their sanctuaries in the forest-covered mountains. In summer, militants can easily survive in the mountains but the security forces might face tough resistance there,” said a Taliban source.

Mehsud militants agree to leave NWA

 

[kidwaibhai]

they should launch a blistering campaign in the areas where they are hiding right now. the worst thing we can do right now is wait until they are well entrenched in that area

 

[SMC]

So I am guessing this means round 2 of rah-e-nijat?

 

[Emperor Palpatine]

They know your coming...then why the wait ?
The longer you hold on from taking NW the worse its gonna get

 

[F86 Saber]

OK so what now?? If they are coming back to SWA than the army is already there. I agree that PA should now launch a final campaign to eliminate these TTP scum and rid of the terrorism threat once and for all.

 

[TaimiKhan]

Its summer time, so now they militants would like to do some action, especially with the military moving forward in Orakzai agency and putting end to their movement and hideouts in this agency.

There are certain areas in SW, where army has not yet moved in, these are mostly the very high peak areas or as said forests, as there is very dense forest areas between Makeen and Razmak area, if you guys check out google earth, you will find it. This is one hell of a terrain and the best option to contain them and kill them here would be air strikes and major aerial surveillance to know where they are and send air strike packages composed of aircraft and helicopter ones.

Moving into these forests would be a very challenging and uphill task for the military and without proper strategy, can lead to casualties, but even still in forest operations the casualties would still be high.

Aerial strikes & SSG guys designating targets for laser strikes or artillery strikes would be good & also SSG guys doing ambushes on the routes being used by them would be best option to demoralize and defeat them.

 

[macnurv]

As long as the leadership is intact TTP will always present a danger, elimination of TTPs 1st tier leadership is of paramount importance.
TTP was hoping to ignite a conflict between PA and Taliban of NWA, for time being it seems the NWA Taliban have not taken the bait. But there could be further attempts by TTP to jump start a conflict to save their skins or at least engage army to relieve pressure on it self.
The time is approaching fast when Pakistan will have to say "Enough" to the Americans as their ever increasing list of demands asks more and more of Pakistan with very little acknowledgement or understanding of Pakistans position. The media is littered with reports suggesting Pakistan have been put on a clock for NWA Operation. If it is true then Americans are about to make the same mistake as they did in Vietnam by bombing Cambodia. History might repeat itself, firm action needs to be taken to prevent this.

 

[DaRk WaVe]

Hakeemullah’s pullout from North Waziristan an ‘excuse’ for Pakistan not to move​

The leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan has agreed to withdraw his forces along with some allied Punjabi Taliban fighters from North Waziristan in an effort to prevent a Pakistani Army operation there.

Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, and Waliur Rehman Mehsud, the leader of the Taliban in South Waziristan, agreed to leave North Waziristan after conducting talks with Hafiz Gul Bahadar, the top Taliban leader in North Waziristan, according to a report in The News. US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal said the report is accurate and noted the shift of Taliban fighters.

“Almost 98 per cent of the Mehsud militants along with some Punjabi Taliban have left North Waziristan,” a source close to Bahadar told The News. “Before leaving, announcements were made from loudspeakers in mosques of various villages by the Mehsud Taliban to thank the tribespeople of North Waziristan for their cooperation and assistance to the displaced Mehsud militants.”

Hakeemullah and Waliur’s forces are said to have returned to the Shaktoi and Makeen regions in South Waziristan, where the military has claimed it has ousted the Taliban after an operation last fall.

“Most of them went to Shaktoi and Makeen in South Waziristan where they had their sanctuaries in the forest-covered mountains,” a Taliban official told The News. “In summer, militants can easily survive in the mountains but the security forces might face tough resistance there.” The Taliban had previously promised to wage a guerrilla war in South Waziristan in the spring; however, the Taliban campaign never materialized.

Hakeemullah and Waliur’s forces have left North Waziristan just as the Pakistani government has come under pressure by the US and Western countries to invade the Taliban-controlled tribal agency. North Waziristan is the home to top al Qaeda leaders as well as Bahadar and the Haqqani Network. Both Taliban groups provide shelter to al Qaeda and other Pakistani jihadist groups, and allow them to operate training camps and conduct attacks into Afghanistan.

The US has traced multiple terror plots back to North Waziristan. The latest plot, the failed Times Square car bombing, was carried out by a Pakistani-American who trained with Hakeemullah’s forces in North Waziristan. Hakeemullah and his deputy Qari Hussain Mehsud released tapes on the Internet that confirmed their involvement in the failed attack.

Hakeemullah's withdrawal from North Waziristan took place as the Pakistani government and military have pressured Bahadar to eject Hakeemullah and the Punjabi Taliban, which includes members and factions of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami. The Pakistani government has rebuffed Western calls for an operation in North Waziristan, as so-called 'good Taliban' groups such as the Haqqani Network and Bahadar’s group are based there. The 'good Taliban' do not advocate attacks against the Pakistani state yet openly support the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

US military and intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal said the withdrawal of Hakeemullah from North Waziristan is a ruse to keep the 'good Taliban' intact.

“This so-called pullout is just the excuse the Pakistanis needed to call off a North Waziristan operation,” a senior military intelligence official said. “The timing could not be any better for the Pakistani military, who clearly engineered this, could it?”

“Make no mistake, the Pakistani government will now say it doesn’t have a reason to go into North Waziristan, that Hakeemullah and all of the bad guys have now fled, and we can deal with the remaining Taliban,” a senior intelligence official said. “We’ve heard this all before, in past peace deals [in North and South Waziristan], when the tribes claimed they ejected al Qaeda. But they never did.”

According to another official, Bahadar’s request for Hakeemullah to leave North Waziristan is an admission that Bahadar never intended to honor a peace agreement with the Pakistani military that was signed just prior to the invasion of the Mehsud tribal areas last fall. In that agreement, Bahadar promised he would not shelter fighters and leaders from South Waziristan, and agreed to keep his fighters from attacking Pakistani military forces in North Waziristan.

“Yet again, the Pakistanis have agreed to a farcical peace agreement that no one believed would be honored by the Taliban,” observed a military intelligence official who closely tracks the region. “Bahadar gave safe haven to Hakeemullah and company, and the Pakistani military was attacked in North Waziristan. The military’s response was to ignore the violations, because in the end they didn’t care if the agreement was honored or not. They [the Pakistani Army] just want to stay out of North Waziristan.”

Hakeemullah’s pullout from North Waziristan an ‘excuse’ for Pakistan not to move - The Long War Journal

 

[Patriot]

They should leave the world and i think Pakistan Army should help them with that.

 

[HAIDER]

Soon US is building a full aviation base to fry all foreign elements in FATA. Few hundred predators enough to do daily job.

 

[Spring Onion]

Soon US is building a full aviation base to fry all foreign elements in FATA. Few hundred predators enough to do daily job.

Yesterday a drone attack killed top military commander of Molvi Nazeer in SWA