Operation Rah-e-Nijat (South Waziristan)

[Safriz]

Hitting such large compounds with such big bombs will cause great collatoral damage. Maybe their were childeren and women also in those compounds.

Yup and There are plenty of women and children around when they suicide bomb Pakistani urban areas indiscriminately killing everybody.
Plus your observation is flawed,if you look closely,the bombs used aren't that large as you say,most buildings aren't razed to ground after the strike,and remain standing.Apparently just the right amount of force is being used,instead of using brute force and carpet bombing them.

 

[mjnaushad]

Hitting such large compounds with such big bombs will cause great collatoral damage. Maybe their were childeren and women also in those compounds.

For the same reason Pakistan Army asked Women and children to leave the area before the fighting.....2ndly 1000lb bombs were used on militant bases which didn't had any houses in surroundings or on caves opening.......

 

[TaimiKhan]

YouTube - New WAR Clip: Pakistan Air Force Strikes on (TTP)Taliban positions

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?

These are guided munitions, laser guided ones.

We have laser guided munitions for many years now, thus PAF guys would be trained quiet well in delivering them.

And the pilot needs to bring the targeting sights on the target and engage the target lock on mode for the targeting pod to go automatic and keep its sights on the target no matter how it flies within a certain parameter, the targeting pod has stabilization system which keeps the laser designator on the target till the munition is not delivered.

Yeah for moving targets, the WSO needs to keep manually the cross hair at the moving target.

 

[Safriz]

These are guided munitions, laser guided ones.

We have laser guided munitions for many years now, thus PAF guys would be trained quiet well in delivering them.

And the pilot needs to bring the targeting sights on the target and engage the target lock on mode for the targeting pod to go automatic and keep its sights on the target no matter how it flies within a certain parameter, the targeting pod has stabilization system which keeps the laser designator on the target till the munition is not delivered.

Yeah for moving targets, the WSO needs to keep manually the cross hair at the moving target.

You mention a WSO..doesnt that need a twin seat Aircraft?

 

[TaimiKhan]

You mention a WSO..doesnt that need a twin seat Aircraft?

Yeah, for such precision strikes, a twin seat aircraft is the best option and we have been using them.

 

[air marshal]

‘Pakistan plans to target militants in North Waziristan’
Thursday, 14 Oct, 2010

WASHINGTON: US Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen said the Pakistani military has pledged to go after militants that the US wants targeted in the North Waziristan tribal region.

Mullen said Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani has given assurances that he will mount an offensive in the tribal region along the Afghan border.

"He has committed to me to go into North Waziristan and to root out these terrorists as well," Mullen reportedly said in an interview on Bloomberg Television's "Conversations with Judy Woodruff" to be broadcast this weekend.

"He clearly knows what our priorities are…North Waziristan is the epicentre of terrorism," Mullen said.

"It's where al-Qaeda lives."

He further said that the objective was to defeat al-Qaeda and ensure Afghanistan would not again become a haven for the group.

Pakistan says its army is stretched by the fight against militants in six tribal regions and a flood that inundated a fifth of the country in July.

 

[dagulskie]

a full op right before winter may not be prudent. Instead, we need to use winter against the terrorists by forcing them to hide and freeze to death in the mountains by targeting their known bases

 

[fatman17]

Five soldiers killed in South Waziristan attack

PESHAWAR: Five soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack on a check post in a remote tribal area near the Afghan border, security officials said on Friday.

The terrorists launched their attack overnight on Talab check post in mountainous Sararogha district of South Waziristan region, they said.

“Five soldiers were killed and one is missing,” a security official said, requesting anonymity. Another security official confirmed the attack, saying information came late as the check post is in a remote mountainous area, some 50 kilometres northeast of Wana. The government had sent 30,000 troops into South Waziristan last year to destroy Taliban strongholds in the lawless region. Sararogha was a stronghold of Baitullah Mehsud, the founder of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who was killed in a US drone strike in August last year. afp

 

[Gin ka Pakistan]

Why drone don`t fly in South Waziristan and who`s assets are TTP , I hope Mr, PHD Farhat Taj can tell us in his book. would he be calling killing of five Pakistani solders as fake war too.

(Ref Thread : ANALYSIS: What is wrong with the ANP? )

 

[air marshal]

Militants kill five soldiers

By Sailab Mehsud

LADDAH, Oct 15: Five soldiers were killed and another was missing after militants attacked a security post in Sararogha tehsil of South Waziristan, officials said on Friday.

An exchange of fire took place after the attack on the post in Galaba area on the Makeen-Jandola road late on Thursday night. There were no reports about casualties on the militants’ side.

Our Correspondent in Kalaya adds: Four members of a tribal lashkar and three militants were killed in a clash in the central tehsil of Orakzai Agency on Friday.

According to local people, six members of the lashkar and several militants were injured.

Mashtikhel tribal lashkar’s chief Mulaqat Khan Orakzai said the clash followed an attack on militants’ hideouts.

 

[air marshal]

Operation in North Waziristan?: Decision to be based on need, not dictates

By Ahmad Hassan

ISLAMABAD, Oct 14: Rejecting US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen’s assertion that army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani had assured him of launching an operation in North Waziristan, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said a decision about such an action would depend on Pakistan’s needs and not on external dictation.

Talking to this correspondent while flying back to the capital from Karachi after seeing off Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister said: “The government is committed to taking action wherever any terrorist threat exists, but before taking any such decision it will consult the political leadership as it had done before launching operations in Swat and South Waziristan.”

He said he had consulted parliament and the political leadership before launching the operation and the chief of the army staff (COAS) had extensively briefed them.

“Although Gen Kayani still has that permission, it will be better if the political leadership is consulted once again before taking a fresh initiative.”

Answering a question, he said there was no external pressure for the extension of service recently given to Gen Kayani. “Even the COAS had to be persuaded to accept the extension.”

When asked why was the United States pressurising Pakistan to knock down the Haqqani network and at the same time supporting President Hamid Karzai’s move to hold talks with the group, the prime minister said: “I believe that Karzai’s talks roadmap is not clear yet. He had promised during his recent visit to Islamabad to share it with us.”

The prime minister said he had sacked five beneficiaries of the defunct National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). He said he would strictly follow the Supreme Court’s directives in respect of other beneficiaries, even if they included some ministers, after the submission of their list.

Mr Gilani said the Turkish prime minister was deter- mined to help Pakistan in rehabilitating the flood-affected people and expanding cooperation in all fields of nation building.

 

[air marshal]

Operation in North Waziristan?: Sooner the better, says Gates

By Anwar Iqbal

WASHINGTON, Oct 14: US President Barack Obama’s military advisers are urging Pakistan to launch a major military offensive in North Waziristan, with the secretary of defence and the military chief saying that Islamabad has already promised to do so.

In less than 14 hours, four key officials responsible for the US-led war in Afghanistan stressed the importance of such an offensive, insisting that the war could not be won until terrorists based in North Waziristan were dislodged.

The statements come days before the third round of the US-Pakistan ‘strategic dialogue’ in Washington during which the Obama administration is expected to urge Islamabad to send its troops into North Waziristan and uproot the Haqqani network which, the Americans claim, is based there.

“Well, they’ve talked about taking action in North Waziristan and our hopes are that they will,” US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said when asked if he wanted Pakistan to take more forceful action in the area.

In a transcript released by Pentagon, Mr Gates was quoted as telling journalists travelling with him to Brussels that he would want Pakistan to launch the proposed operation as soon as possible.

“It’s also just a fact of life that significant military resources have been drawn away to help deal with this terrible flooding situation they have. So the question is, at what point do they return to the offensive in Fata,” he added.

“When would the US like to see action from them in that area?” he was asked.

“Obviously, the sooner the better, but I also completely understand the need to take care of their own people first because of the flooding,” Mr Gates said.

Another journalist asked him if he believed a military operation in North Waziristan was critical to US success in Afghanistan.

“I think it’s important,” said Mr Gates. “It’s clear that North Waziristan is an important safe haven not just for Al Qaeda but for the Haqqani network and for others.”

Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Bloomberg Television that the Pakistani military had already pledged to go after the militants operating from this “epicentre of terrorism”.

The admiral said Pakistan army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani had given assurances he would mount an offensive the US had long called for.

“Gen Kayani has committed to me to go into North Waziristan and to root out these terrorists as well,” Admiral Mullen said.

“He clearly knows what our priorities are.” North Waziristan “is the epicentre of terrorism,” Mr Mullen said. “It’s where Al Qaeda lives.”

Another Pentagon transcript quoted Gen David Petraeus, the commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, as telling the American Forces Press Service that the Taliban saw the area between the Afghan border and North Waziristan “as a safe haven”.

Yet another transcript quoted Nato regional commander Maj-Gen John Campbell as terming the Haqqani network “the most dangerous among the insurgent groups that operate in that region”.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also said on Thursday that the US was pressing Pakistan ‘very hard’ to go after those militants who crossed into Afghanistan to attack Nato troops.

In an interview to ABC television, she said the new US policy for Pakistan focused on the threats that both countries faced. “We’re pressing very hard that they do more with their military forces, their intelligence forces to go after those segments of this Taliban network that is connected with Al Qaeda that is crossing the border into Afghanistan, going after our military as well as Afghan targets,” she said.

 

[Safriz]

Dont know what kind of aircraft used and which part of the country..But another video of a precision strike from PAF.

 

[GUNNER]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 19, 2010 - Militants attacked a Pakistani military convoy on Tuesday, killing three soldiers in the tribal badlands of Waziristan on the Afghan border, a security official said.

The attack took place in the Kalundar Keley area of South Waziristan, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of the district's main town Wana.

"Militants attacked a security force patrol on Tuesday in Kalundar Keley area, killing three troops and wounding two others," a senior security official in the area told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The official said an earlier roadside bomb attack in the same area wounded two more soldiers. A second security official confirmed the deaths.

 

[TaimiKhan]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 19, 2010 - Militants attacked a Pakistani military convoy on Tuesday, killing three soldiers in the tribal badlands of Waziristan on the Afghan border, a security official said.

The attack took place in the Kalundar Keley area of South Waziristan, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of the district's main town Wana.

"Militants attacked a security force patrol on Tuesday in Kalundar Keley area, killing three troops and wounding two others," a senior security official in the area told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The official said an earlier roadside bomb attack in the same area wounded two more soldiers. A second security official confirmed the deaths.

It seems things are warming up in SW and militants are back.