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Operation Rah-e-Nijat (South Waziristan)

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US no more pressing for N. Waziristan operation
Saturday, 14 Aug, 2010

WASHINGTON: The US military has stopped urging Pakistan to launch an operation in North Waziristan to root out the Haqqani network, officials said.

Earlier this week, US Secretary of State Robert Gates told journalists that the US was not expecting Pakistan to undertake new offensives for some time because it was busy consolidating the gains it had already made.

On Friday, an influential American newspaper – Wall Street Journal – reported that the US had stopped lobbying Pakistan to root out militants in North Waziristan.

US military officials told the Journal they believed pressing Pakistan for help against the group was counter-productive.

The newspaper reported that during a trip to Pakistan last month, Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, chose not to raise the issue of an offensive against the Haqqani network — a departure from the message US defence officials delivered earlier this year.

The Journal quoted US officials as saying that they believed making more demands, public or private, on Islamabad to start a military offensive against the Haqqani network would only strain US-Pakistani relations.

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ANALYSIS: Adeyzai must not fall —Farhat Taj

The recent two attacks on the lashkar have alarmed the people of Adeyzai. Have the intelligence agencies decided to eliminate this hurdle — the lashkars — in the way of the Taliban’s movement towards Peshawar, the people wonder

Adeyzai is a small village in rural Peshawar on the border of Darra Adam Khel in FATA. There is an anti-Taliban lashkar in Adeyzai that was twice attacked in recent weeks, leading to the assassination of three lashkar supporters, two volunteers and at least one of its leaders, Israr Khan.

The Adeyzai lashkar was organised in 2008 in the face of a complete collapse of the state writ in the village due to Taliban incursion from Darra Adam Khel. The police could not come out of the police station. People, including policemen, were publicly killed and kidnapped. Girls’ schools were bombed. Fear of the Taliban had engulfed village life.

Disappointed in the state, the people of Adeyzai decided to combat the Taliban on their own and formed the anti-Taliban lashkar consisting of local volunteers. The lashkar has successfully countered the Taliban. Law and order was restored and girls’ schools started functioning again. But to do so, the lashkar people had to render many sacrifices, including the assassination of its leaders Haji Malik and Israr Khan, and many other lashkar volunteers. “Without the Adeyzai lashkars, the Taliban would have been controlling Peshawar,” the assassinated lashkar leader, Haji Malik once told me. This is probably not an exaggeration. This lashkar is indeed a hurdle in the way of the Darra Taliban’s taking over of Peshawar.

It is pertinent to mention that Haji Malik was previously linked with the Taliban, but turned against them due to the Taliban’s crimes against people in his own village and other parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA. He continued to oppose the Taliban despite grave threats and finally gave his life in resistance to the Taliban. I had the good luck of having interviewed him before his targeted killing by the Taliban in a suicide attack. In the interview he told me he wishes all mullahs in Pakistan be killed by the state, including Maulana Fazlur Rehman, leader of the JUI-F, who should be the first one in the line of execution for his deep-rooted links with the Taliban. He said that there was maatam (loud wailing and mourning) in the house of the Maulana Fazlur Rehman the day Baitullah Mehsud, the former TTP leader, died in a drone attack. The current leader of the lashkar, Dilawar Khan, is not known for any links with the Taliban in his past.

A visit to this small hamlet could be a heart-breaking journey, especially the sight of so many young Adeyzai men of tender age guarding their village with weapons round the clock. These young men should have been in high schools or colleges. Elderly men who should be playing with their grandchildren are also holding guns to protect their village. One wonders why do we have to be citizens of this state that cannot even provide us the very basic of our needs, security against the murderers, the Taliban.

With the exception of a few Kalashnikovs given to the lashkar leaders by the police in 2008, no state help, moral or material, was ever provided to this lashkar. Instead, the state has created difficulties for the lashkar. The police have implicated the Adeyzai lashkar leaders in criminal cases. Despite repeated requests, the police are refusing to withdraw the cases. The lashkar leaders cannot go to the courts in Peshawar to challenge the cases. With no security from the state, they are sure the Taliban would kill them in the court premises.

Why would the police register criminal cases against the Adeyzai lashkar leaders? The police in Adeyzai were paralysed by the Taliban. The lashkar restored the writ of the state in the area and facilitated the police to perform their routine duties. Why would the police reciprocate with criminal cases? It must be the intelligence agencies of Pakistan putting pressure on the lashkar through the police. It seems that the intelligence agencies of our country, which run the Afghan policy of Pakistan, are punishing the people of Adeyzai for their anti-Taliban stance. Anti-Taliban Pakhtun simply do not exist in the strategic worldview of the military establishment and must be eliminated or at least kept under an intense state-generated pressure to break their will against the Taliban.

Also, the perception here in Peshawar is that the intelligence agencies do not need, at least for now, the Darra Adam Khel Taliban to put intense pressure on Peshawar. The day this is decided, the entire Adeyzai lashkar leadership would be eliminated within days to clear the way of the Darra Taliban to take Peshawar.

The recent two attacks on the lashkar have alarmed the people of Adeyzai. Have the intelligence agencies decided to eliminate this hurdle — the lashkars — in the way of the Taliban’s movement towards Peshawar, the people wonder.

Now is the time for the state to send appropriate signals to the people of Adeyzai to restore their confidence in the state, if indeed the intelligence agencies are not in league with the Taliban, as the military spokesmen often claim. This may include withdrawal of criminal cases against the Adeyzai lashkar leaders and certainly entails necessary state support to make sure Adeyzai never falls to the Taliban. More importantly, it means seriously targeted operations against the Taliban to annihilate them so that people in Adeyzai or elsewhere in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA do not have to make anti-Taliban lashkars for their security.

The writer is a PhD Research Fellow with the University of Oslo and currently writing a book Taliban and Anti-Taliban
 
Two pakistani soldiers were martyred tuesday when a bomb exploded near a military convoy in the tribal region of North Waziristan - AFP
 
RIP! But in any case i do feel sad that we don't see much anger among Pakistani Public when militants kill Soldiers but a lot of anger when US does something.My point is we need to be careful of US but at same time erase all militants groups.Destroy them.
 
During russo-afghan wars we trained these waziristanis and praised them as mujids of islam...after two decades we are doing operations against them in the name of war against terror...we are playing with wazirs as if they are toys...pakistan had used these great once patriotic people as cannon fodder. After lot of killings and humiliations by pak army and drones (with pakistan consent), waziristanis no longer consider themselves pakistanis....
For a waziristani, there is no difference btw pakistan army and british army...both imposed wars on them.
 
During russo-afghan wars we trained these waziristanis and praised them as mujids of islam...after two decades we are doing operations against them in the name of war against terror...we are playing with wazirs as if they are toys...pakistan had used these great once patriotic people as cannon fodder. After lot of killings and humiliations by pak army and drones (with pakistan consent), waziristanis no longer consider themselves pakistanis....
For a waziristani, there is no difference btw pakistan army and british army...both imposed wars on them.

i beg to differ.....i dont subscribe to any of those views; though i will admit the state (civilian government) failing miserably to integrate them or even acknowledge them!
 

I am intrigued by the accuracy of PAF strikes in this video..CAn somebody explain if they are using guided munition against TTP positions or is it sheer power of training?
 
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FLIR capability is very important and invaluable for night-time missions

those Cobras also use TOW missiles, not sure of the exact type; but pinpoint accurate
The video seems to be from a jet fighter not Gunship,so TOW is out of question.
 

This is a video of PA's Cobra gunship..At 0:23,we can see a TOW missile going through the window of the house..This video looks very different from the video posted above...May be because the above video is from Jet fighters...Nevertheless my question remains that is PAF using Guided munition? as such accuracy as shown in the video in mountainous area in very difficult to achieve...There is a Horizon indicator in the video,and we can see that the pilot is flying upside down at times,and the angles of attack,if true,are very difficult manoeuvrings.May be a Military professional can give a better opinion,but i do play games like HAWX ;) and such manoeuvrings are difficult to pull even in video games,and this is a real life video.
 
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Hitting such large compounds with such big bombs will cause great collatoral damage. Maybe their were childeren and women also in those compounds.
 
i wasnt at all saying those are tow missiles, which you can actually see being launched and guided to target

mistake to mention Cobras though, and for that i retract statement
 
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