no infighting between haqqani group n ttp. they are the same..
any updates? any demands? r the kids back?
no, they are demanding the release of taliban prisoners.
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no infighting between haqqani group n ttp. they are the same..
any updates? any demands? r the kids back?
This situation is the perfect example of the horror of terrorist demands.
You are President. 25 innocent children are being held hostage. They demand the release of their fellows from prison. What do you do?
If you do the exchange, you have just told terrorists that "This tactic works. Taking hostages and making demands is effective."
If you DON'T cooperate, 25 children die in horrific ways.
There's no easy answer. My gut feeling is that you cannot give in to their demands. Better to launch a rescue operation, even if it results in innocent casualties.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistans cabinet on Thursday asked Kabul to secure the release of more than 30 children who were kidnapped after mistakenly crossing the border into Afghanistan.
The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the abduction and said that these people belong to the areas where tribesmen rose militias against it.
The cabinet condemned the abduction of innocent children from Bajaur and asked the Kabul government to get them freed soon, an official statement said.
The incident took place last week when more than 30 boys inadvertently crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistans lawless northwest while going on a picnic on the second day of the Islamic festival of Eid.
Local officials put the kidnapped boys ages at between 12 and 18 but the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed they were 20 to 30 years old.
Pakistani officials blamed the abduction on a militant group allied with Taliban commander Maulvi Faqir Muhammad, who led insurgents in Bajaur but is believed to have fled to Afghanistan in 2010.
Afghanistan shares a disputed and unmarked 2,400-kilometre (1,500-mile) border with Pakistan, and Taliban and other Al-Qaeda-linked militants have carved out strongholds on either side in their fight against security forces from both governments.
The Pakistani military has repeatedly claimed to have eliminated the militant threat in Bajaur, one of seven districts in the semi-autonomous tribal belt that the United States sees as the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda.
Afghanistan and Pakistan blame each other for several recent cross-border attacks that have killed dozens and displaced hundreds of families.
Islamabads military has accused Faqir Muhammad of being behind a recent attack on a Pakistani paramilitary checkpost in the northwestern town of Chitral, which killed 25 troops.
negotiations would only entail them demanding release of TTP prisoners.....that will be a defeat
Islamabad should apply some pressure on Kabul until each and every one of those tribesmen's children are released and not even a scratch is found on them
When we first suggested that there is something fishy about this abduction that that the collusion of one or more sets of parents or chaperons, our respected member Jana suggested that we don't know what we are talking about and that we must be DRUNK, her Talib sympathizer mentality did not allow her to think - now we all know that indeed this is has been a set up, it may even be possible that this is only superficially a Talib action, but that it has the support of many tribesmen, as they still have a brigand ethic:
1. Your ignorant idiotic claim was that parents of these kidnapped boys were groupie of Taliban. But your ignorant claim was and is wrong and all a conspiracy theory which had been proven wrong Because
A. Most of these boys belong to families who's elders form anti-Taliban Lashkars and are fighting these terrorists.
B. many of these kidnapped boys belong to military personnel's families who are fighting the terrorists.
C. Indeed you are ignorant about the area thats why you suggested that entire Pakistan was open for picnic why they did picnic in their own area. one wonders if you even know the passages if suitable for traveling to other parts of Pakistan from FATA.
last but not the least when you copy past news do past the link of the source.
Chogy Sir,
i think we may have to come up with an "out of the box" solution.....if i was in command, i'd do a few low fly-bys at mach 1 over their villages just across the border; to wake up those people and let them know our might. Then I would hold Afghan police accountable (it's a hostile force anyways) and give them a 3 day ultimatum to find those children before we go in ourselves and find them.
may sound wild, but honestly -- that would be my approach. These people are cowards for hiding behind children. They are no mujahideen, they have no shame or morals whatsoever.
How about some low fly bys over Mr. Haqquani too?