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[metalfalcon]

Salute to Soldiers of Zarb-e-AZB

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

This Market known as Adam khor Market ( Adam Khor Bazar ) in this market Taliban used to Shaheed Army soldiers and use to hang there bodies but on that day this land was under army boots. there was a myth that no one can enter in Meeran Shah with out TTPs permission but Allah Taala made us to teach them a lesson which they will not be able to forget through out there lives... Long Live Pakistan.

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2 soldier from right Capt Akash Rabbani was martyred ... He was a frnd of @Umair Nawaz. Fellow PDF member.

 

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2 soldier from right Capt Akash Rabbani was martyred ... He was a frnd of @Umair Nawaz. Fellow PDF member.

Salute to all the Fallen Soldiers of PAKISTAN ARMY.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

 

[Huda]

I see you standing among them all
Standing so strong ,proud and tall
The world looks at you, but does not see
Everything you sacrifice to keep us free

I'm here to say, to let you know
That you are loved, even if it doesn't show
You fight for our hopes,dreams,and liberty
You fight for our freedom...... A hero to be

We want you to know, your never alone
For we are waiting, for you to come home
But the hardest thing for a person to be
Is you.. A SOLDIER, fighting
To keep us free

 

[Bratva]

Shortly after the TTP expelled Khorasani, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar spokesperson Ehsan said his group has expelled Fazalullah and the people around him.

Ehsan, who has previously served as a spokesperson to Khorasani, issued a long charge-sheet against the TTP leadership, accusing them of serving “their personal interests.”

“It was lack of leadership quality that TTP had been involved in bloody clashes that has taken lives of known Mujahideen. The leadership had no policy to deal with this situation,” Ehsan said in a statement.

He disclosed nearly 200 Taliban from Mehsud tribe have lost lives as the result of internal fighting. He also said the Taliban had killed the TTP Rawalpindi chief Commander Nadeem Abbas alias Enteqami but his killers have not yet been tried in their Islamic court.

“It is still a mystery as to who has killed the members of central council Asmatullah Shaheen Bitani and Tairq Afridi,” he asked.

Despite their internal rift both groups however declared their allegiance to Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Muhammad Omar, and accepted him as their supreme leader.

Pakistani Taliban have always considered Mullah Omar as their leader; however, the Afghan Taliban never formally owned them despite their strong links.

Afghan Taliban refuse to comment on Zawahiri’s video

A day after al Qaeda Ayman al-Zawahiri’s new video message of forming a new branch in the Indian subcontinent, the Afghan Taliban declined to offer comment.

When asked about these developments, the Afghan Taliban distanced themselves. “We do not want to comment,” was a brief response of Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid, when The Express Tribune sought his comments on Zawahiri’s remarks.

Deepening split: TTP expels splinter group chief – The Express Tribune

 

[fwc]

Pak army on fire

 

[Areesh]

He disclosed nearly 200 Taliban from Mehsud tribe have lost lives as the result of internal fighting. He also said the Taliban had killed the TTP Rawalpindi chief Commander Nadeem Abbas alias Enteqami but his killers have not yet been tried in their Islamic court.

“It is still a mystery as to who has killed the members of central council Asmatullah Shaheen Bitani and Tairq Afridi,” he asked.

Subhan Allah.

 

[metalfalcon]

These Politicians Don't Deserve such a Sincere and Professional Military.

 

[Menace2Society]

 

[VCheng]

Military’s figures - Newspaper - DAWN.COM

Military’s figures
By Editorial
Updated about 13 hours ago

.— File photo



AFTER a considerable silence, the military has spoken about the ongoing operation against TTP militants in North Waziristan.

Going by the statistics released by the army on Wednesday, it appears that a significant number of militants have been killed in Operation Zarb-i-Azb, while the terrorist infrastructure has also been neutralised.

The army says 910 suspected militants have been killed since the operation commenced in June while 27 ‘factories’ used to produce IEDs and other munitions have been destroyed. Over 80 troops have also died in the line of duty. The army says it has carried out over 2,200 counter terrorism operations countrywide in the wake of the action in the tribal belt, which is why, it believes, there has been minimal backlash. Indeed, the latter observation is valid — before the operation was launched there were fears that there would be a vicious terrorist backlash against any state action deemed hostile by the militants.

Thankfully, the only major terrorist attack witnessed since Zarb-i-Azb began was the assault on two airbases in Quetta last month. However, the operation will only be judged a success in the long term if the militant infrastructure is permanently dismantled and those with blood on their hands brought to justice.

Meanwhile, the banned TTP has contested the military’s claims, saying only 25 to 30 of its fighters have been killed, adding that its bomb factories had been shifted to ‘safe places’. The militants may be on the run, but a clear victory against them can only be achieved if they are put out of business altogether. For example, despite counter terrorism operations conducted in Bajaur and Swat in the past, these areas have yet to return to complete normalcy.

In a related vein, the US military leadership has offered its own view of the operation in North Waziristan. Senior US generals have said it is “too soon” to evaluate the action in the tribal areas. They have observed that Pakistan will have to “clear, hold and build” the territory that has been taken back from militants.

They have a point. But what the Americans in Afghanistan and the government in Kabul can do on their part is to prevent militants on the run from taking refuge in the areas bordering Pakistan, while the latter must challenge those using its territory to fight Kabul. Most importantly, the US can help Pakistan rebuild North Waziristan in order to help bring the troubled area into the national mainstream.

Published in Dawn, September 5th, 2014

 

[Counterpunch]

I think majority of the terrorists have moved back into shawal valley and farther back into Afghanistan. In my opinion we have a month and a half at most if we are planning on to take Shawal and adjoining areas as the onset of winters will make it very difficult later on

 

[fatman17]

Militancy

• On September 5, Asmatullah Muawiya, the chief of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Punjab faction, sometimes referred to as the Punjabi Taliban, announced that the faction would abandon its operations in Pakistan and operate exclusively in Afghanistan under Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar. He also added that the group’s Pakistani activities would be confined to preaching Islam.[8]
• On September 5, Ehsanullah Ehsan, the spokesperson for TTP Jamatul Ahrar, a recent splinter group of the TTP, welcomed head of al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri’s announcement for the creation of a new branch of al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent.[9]
• On September 4, Ehsanullah Eshan, spokesperson for TTP Jamatul Ahrar, admitted that the group had merged with Ahrarul Hind, a militant group that had previously splintered from the TTP and that was headed by the current head of TTP Jamatul Ahrar, Qasim Khurasani.[10]
• On September 4, officials with the Matta Police Station arrested a militant during a raid in the Matta sub-district of Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[11]
• On September 4, unidentified militants detonated an IED injuring three people in Rahimabad Colony, Peshawar.[12]
• According to a September 4 report by The Frontier Post, the Vice Chancellor of Islamia College University Peshawar who was recently recovered from TTP captivity stated that the TTP also had plans to kidnap former Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain.[13]

Military’s figures - Newspaper - DAWN.COM

Military’s figures
By Editorial
Updated about 13 hours ago

.— File photo



AFTER a considerable silence, the military has spoken about the ongoing operation against TTP militants in North Waziristan.

Going by the statistics released by the army on Wednesday, it appears that a significant number of militants have been killed in Operation Zarb-i-Azb, while the terrorist infrastructure has also been neutralised.

The army says 910 suspected militants have been killed since the operation commenced in June while 27 ‘factories’ used to produce IEDs and other munitions have been destroyed. Over 80 troops have also died in the line of duty. The army says it has carried out over 2,200 counter terrorism operations countrywide in the wake of the action in the tribal belt, which is why, it believes, there has been minimal backlash. Indeed, the latter observation is valid — before the operation was launched there were fears that there would be a vicious terrorist backlash against any state action deemed hostile by the militants.

Thankfully, the only major terrorist attack witnessed since Zarb-i-Azb began was the assault on two airbases in Quetta last month. However, the operation will only be judged a success in the long term if the militant infrastructure is permanently dismantled and those with blood on their hands brought to justice.

Meanwhile, the banned TTP has contested the military’s claims, saying only 25 to 30 of its fighters have been killed, adding that its bomb factories had been shifted to ‘safe places’. The militants may be on the run, but a clear victory against them can only be achieved if they are put out of business altogether. For example, despite counter terrorism operations conducted in Bajaur and Swat in the past, these areas have yet to return to complete normalcy.

In a related vein, the US military leadership has offered its own view of the operation in North Waziristan. Senior US generals have said it is “too soon” to evaluate the action in the tribal areas. They have observed that Pakistan will have to “clear, hold and build” the territory that has been taken back from militants.

They have a point. But what the Americans in Afghanistan and the government in Kabul can do on their part is to prevent militants on the run from taking refuge in the areas bordering Pakistan, while the latter must challenge those using its territory to fight Kabul. Most importantly, the US can help Pakistan rebuild North Waziristan in order to help bring the troubled area into the national mainstream.

Published in Dawn, September 5th, 2014

frankly we dont need the 'stamp of approval' from US Generals. they have failed miserably in afghanistan and iraq leaving behind fractured nations which will take years to recover or break-up into smaller nations (which was the original objective of the US) so that they can never threaten their 'darling' israel.

 

[VCheng]

frankly we dont need the 'stamp of approval' from US Generals. they have failed miserably in afghanistan and iraq leaving behind fractured nations which will take years to recover or break-up into smaller nations (which was the original objective of the US) so that they can never threaten their 'darling' israel.

But the point made by them of the Army having to “clear, hold and build” the territory captured in FATA is still a valid one.

 

[metalfalcon]

Height of Irony.