Operation Zarb-e-Azb | Updates, News & Discussions.

[fatman17]

Militancy

• On September 20, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid said that a senior TTP commander identified as Gul Hasan Afghani was killed in clashes with security forces in the Boya area of North Waziristan two days earlier. He claimed that the TTP’s Mehsud faction and local Taliban carried out the attack on security forces in which Afghani was killed. The TTP also released photographs of the funeral of Commander Hasan, which was reportedly attended by TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah.[8]
• According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), 15 militants and one soldier were killed in clashes with security forces in the Boya area of North Waziristan on September 20. Three militants and one soldier were killed in a ground clearance operation while 12 militants were killed in subsequent air strikes by Pakistani Air Force jets. Air strikes also destroyed three militant hideouts.[9]
• On September 22, the ISPR stated that airstrikes killed 23 militants in the Bandigar area, Ghulam Khan, North Waziristan.[10]
• In a message on Twitter on September 19, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) spokesperson Maj. Gen. Asim Bajwa said that the Pakistani army would pursue and hunt down terrorists hiding in remote tribal areas of North Waziristan including the Datta Khel area and beyond. He also said that militants have been effectively targeted through air and ground assaults as a part of the ongoing military offensive Operation Zarb-e-Azb.[11]
• On September 22, according to a report quoting noted Pakistani analyst Najam Sethi, the Punjabi Taliban was involved in the attack on the Karachi dockyard on September 6. Sethi speculated that the Pakistani military’s goal is to divide the TTP into smaller splinters and divert their militant activities away from Pakistan.[12]
• As reported by Dawn on September 20, according to Pakistani legal firm Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), the U.S. released 14 Pakistani detainees from custody in Bagram Prison, Afghanistan. The detainees are to be repatriated to Pakistan; it is unclear whether they will be at liberty or in Pakistani custody upon their return.[13]
• On September 21, unidentified armed men killed Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader, Maulana Sher Alam Farooqi, in the Tor Gundai area of Hangu in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.[14]
• On September 22, security forces shot three suspected militants and arrested four in the Wadh area of Khuzdar district in Balochistan. According to a Frontier Corps (FC) spokesperson, the militants belonged to the Lashkar-e-Balochistan and United Baloch Army. FC personnel also recovered weapons, ammunition and improvised explosive devices from the suspects.[15]
• On September 21, deputy caretaker of Taleemul Quran seminary, Mufti Amanullah, was shot dead in what the police have characterized as a targeted killing near Qasim aviation base in Rawalpindi, Punjab. Student protests erupted in Rawalpindi following the killing.[16]
• On September 20, the police allegedly arrested a key militant in a raid in Matani, Peshawar district. The militant was reportedly involved in attacks on senior police officers.[17]
• On September 22, unidentified militants attacked a police checkpost in Hangu, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa killing four people including three policemen.[18]
• On September 20, police foiled an attempted terror attack when they defused an explosive device weighing 20 kilograms in the Kach Phattak area of Hangu.[19]
• On September 20, three people were injured in a bomb blast in the Jinnah Town area of Quetta.[20]
• On September 22, Balochistan Home Secretary Akbar Durrani stated that a Baloch separatist group attacked the convoy of another militant commander, Yaqoob Balgatheri, killing him and 10 others in Turbat, Balochistan.[21]
• According to Pajhwok Monitor on September 20, 2014, M-16 and AK-47 assault rifles among others firearms have been selling at a brisk pace on the black market in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan. Reportedly, the arms have been stolen from U.S. and N.A.T.O. forces in Afghanistan and then smuggled across the border to the FATA.[22]

 

[hkdas]

Did you by any chance, miss the report of 1 million civilians leaving the area before the start of Op?

Just asking out curiosity, were you by any chance high on bong and weed those days ?



Flying at an altitude of 25,000 feet, the images taken from a C-130 aircraft are not as good as those from CIA-operated pilotless drones.

But these indigenously modified transport planes equipped with the day/night Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) system provide F-16s with reasonably good images and the correct coordinates to spot and strike a target with laser-guided precision bombs and eliminate it.

“No one, let alone those being targeted themselves, would know that they are being watched and monitored,” a security official remarked, looking at images showing a group of men darting out of a compound and scurrying to another in a mountainous terrain in North Waziristan.

The images were taken from a C-130; soon F-16s would roar into the sky to strike the target.
The Pakistan Air Force has spearheaded the campaign in Operation Zarb-i-Azb, pounding suspected militants’ hideouts in what until recently was the epicentre of terrorism in Pakistan as the military moved its infantry and mechanised forces to clear and hold a region where the state until June 15 enjoyed little to no authority.

Three months into the military operation, the military says it has cleared more than 80pc of the territory in North Waziristan including its regional headquarters of Miramshah, its now ruined sub-district Mirali and a communication line spreading over 80 kilometres up to Dattakhel.

As things stand, the military is now in Dattakhel, 35km west of Miramshah, consolidating its position and working out plans for the tough fight ahead in the densely forested Shawal Valley, facing occasional rocket and mortar fire from militants.

North Waziristan operation — daunting challenge ahead - Pakistan - DAWN.COM




Did you have an iota of sense that When US military strikes are conducted there are hordes of civilian living aroudn that particular target. Are there any civilians in N.Waziristan agency??

Do you understand, it's just not 1 building is hit in such bombing runs but multiple ?

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On October 11, 2009 the army pinpointed 110 targets, eventually rising to 150, as part of its Operation Rah-e-Nijat ('Path to Salvation') which would commence on October 17. The South Waziristan operation would be tricky as there were thousands of militants occupying strategic locations. It was those concentrations that would be targeted.

ACM Suleman explained: "We photographed the entire South Waziristan region; we found militants were waiting for the army. "They set up pickets and bunkers in the mountain sides in readiness for the troops. We saw all this when we checked the area using DB-110s. It meant that when the army moved in they found little resistance. In previous campaigns the army had launched ops in SWA but suffered high casualties — that didn't happen this time. In the end we struck 220 targets in the six-day window

As ACM Suleman explained to the author: "We had recce- configured Mirages but it was the old equipment, which included the LORAP [long-range aerial photography] pod and would often take 24 hours to prepare one sheet of imagery. It wasn't acceptable in a war that moved as quickly as this." So the US Government decided to expedite the pace of delivery of Goodrich DB-110 reconnaissance systems already ordered by the PAF, which eventually arrived in January 2009. The air force was then able to escalate operations in its fight against the militantsFor two days PAF bombs targeted the militants in a bid to 'soften them up' before troops moved in to reclaim the territory. Before the helicopters could fly into the Landing Zones, the area was again photographed by PAF DB-110-equipped F-16s. From the imagery, several isolated structures were identified that could have housed militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades. These were destroyed before the helicopters were cleared into the HLZs. ACM Suleman clarified: "These buildings didn't just collapse, they exploded — proof enough there were weapons caches and ammunition inside

Excerpts from Alan Warnes article in Air international-2012

PAF targeting hideouts of militants in Swat






Extra footage, Strikes carried out in daylight. Youtube video

star safire iii and db-110 reconnaissance pod are american weapons customized for PAF.. what advantage will these equipments give PAF over US drones?? don't you know that pakistani military and intelligence is depend on CIA for intelligence?? US even have 3 dedicated satellites for real time intel sharing and for data transferring(while pak military don't have this capability)

 

[Jango]

and you think those militants will stay and wait for airstrike to come?? this is not a conventional war.. insurgency is not a conventional war to separate militants from civilins... bro, US have more intelligence network that ISI in those areas.. with more technical and financial capability CIA can even lesion to the conservation of militants in real time and those drones provide a real time battlefield surveillance to CIA. your military equipments are USA made one... they only provide others inferior weapons that their model. your military in ISI is trained by americans.. so don't think that you are better than them.

I don't think we are talking on the same level of respect for ISI in those areas that is warranted.

You still think that we are just dumbfuc#s with our hands in our arses sitting pretty on a pole waiting for things to happen?

Good day.

 

[hkdas]

I don't think we are talking on the same level of respect for ISI in those areas that is warranted.

You still think that we are just dumbfuc#s with our hands in our arses sitting pretty on a pole waiting for things to happen?

Good day.

you got me wrong... my point was that your military is declaring all those dead in air strikes as terrorists. no one cannot avoid a collateral damage in counter insurgency ops particularly in airstrikes..

 

[Jango]

you got me wrong... my point was that your military is declaring all those dead in air strikes as terrorists. no one cannot avoid a collateral damage in counter insurgency ops particularly in airstrikes..

When 90% of the population has been removed, then how will you get civilian casualties?

 

[hkdas]

When 90% of the population has been removed, then how will you get civilian casualties?

sir, do you think that terrorists are fools to stay in a place where PAF is going to conduct air strikes?? those are civilins who don't want to leave their properties... even in floods many families refused to leave their properties and choose to stay in their home... this had happened in war times too.. many don't want to live as refugees when they have a good house even if their is an imminent danger of being blowup... 2 months ago i saw a video of a man who is moving from tribal areas saying that those killed in airstrike are civilins not terrorists.. and he also says that terrorist had already escaped from that place...

People flee as Pakistani air strikes target Waziristan on MSN Video

 

[Bratva]

sir, do you think that terrorists are fools to stay in a place where PAF is going to conduct air strikes?? those are civilins who don't want to leave their properties... even in floods many families refused to leave their properties and choose to stay in their home... this had happened in war times too.. many don't want to live as refugees when they have a good house even if their is an imminent danger of being blowup... 2 months ago i saw a video of a man who is moving from tribal areas saying that those killed in airstrike are civilins not terrorists.. and he also says that terrorist had already escaped from that place...

People flee as Pakistani air strikes target Waziristan on MSN Video

Who kille SSG commandoes and 82 soldiers in N.Waziristan if they have fled from the area ?

HKDAS, that's your problem, you don't even following day to day news of N.Waziristan Op. 2 days ago TTP N.waziristan Chief Gul hassan afghani was killed by Army. TTP released a video of his funeral in afghanistan in case you missed the entire video.

You are such a naive and ignorant person, you don't even know the terrain. The forest, mountainous areas the ridges, which provides a perfect hiding spot for terrorists, ad instead of running they hide there and do ambushes as military further moves in to the area.

Why don't you just see N.Waziristan Op map at tribune.com.pk

 

[TheNoob]

sir, do you think that terrorists are fools to stay in a place where PAF is going to conduct air strikes?? those are civilins who don't want to leave their properties... even in floods many families refused to leave their properties and choose to stay in their home... this had happened in war times too.. many don't want to live as refugees when they have a good house even if their is an imminent danger of being blowup... 2 months ago i saw a video of a man who is moving from tribal areas saying that those killed in airstrike are civilins not terrorists.. and he also says that terrorist had already escaped from that place...

People flee as Pakistani air strikes target Waziristan on MSN Video

Yeahhh.
K.
Whoever stayed.
had the chance to get out.
now we dont care. We've had enough of terrorism.....

 

[rockstar08]

Teri himmat ko yeh Dharti tu jaanti ho gi
Teri jurrrat ko yeh Zindagi maanti tu ho gi
jo kaam ker gaya tu is choti si umar may
Quom ki har maa, tu sa beta tu mangti ho gi

uthi thi jo talwaar teri simth mai
un zarboon ko mai ne apne seeene pe mord lia
tere nishan ki khatir aye watan
apne wajood se naata bhi tord lia

A small poem to the brave soldiers of Pakistan , who die for the protection of Homeland ...
from @rockstar08 ... May Allah bless you guys ..you are always in our prayers

 

[fatman17]

Militancy

• On September 23, Pakistan military air strikes killed 19 suspected militants in Dandi Kachkol near Ghulam Khan, Gurbaz and Mana near Pash Ziarat in North Waziristan as a part of the ongoing military offensive Operation Zarb-e-Azb.[1]
• On September 23, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle near a paramilitary Frontier Corps convoy in Peshawar, killing four people—including a security official—and injuring 14. The attack was targeting Brigadier Khalid Javed, the second-most senior officer in the FC. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Shahidullah Shahid, claimed responsibility for the attack and said that it was in reaction to the ongoing military offensive, Operation Zarb-e-Azb, in North Waziristan.[2]

 

[foxbat]

collective butt hurt for enemies of Pakistan ... ahahaha
basically your chutars are hurting that Pakistan has managed to turn the corner
your hope that Pakistan will collapse through your shenanigans via afghanistan has all but evaporated.

 

[fatman17]

Militancy

• On September 24, Pakistani Air Force fighter jets conducted airstrikes, killing eight Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants throughout the Kokikhel area of the Tirah Valley, Khyber Agency. Several militants hideouts were destroyed.[3]
• On September 24, security forces in Quetta carried out a raid on an under-construction house, seizing explosives and arms and arresting three suspects. Quetta police officials said the suspects detained are thought to have been involved in a recent bombing in Satellite Town, Quetta.[4]
• On September 23, unidentified gunmen killed tribal elder Malik Bakhtiar Mehsud in the Kot Azam area of Tank district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Mehsud was reportedly returning home after attending a jirga in Machikhel.[5]

 

[Naval Strategist]

and you think those militants will stay and wait for airstrike to come?? this is not a conventional war.. insurgency is not a conventional war to separate militants from civilins... bro, US have more intelligence network that ISI in those areas.. with more technical and financial capability CIA can even lesion to the conservation of militants in real time and those drones provide a real time battlefield surveillance to CIA. your military equipments are USA made one... they only provide others inferior weapons that their model. your military in ISI is trained by americans.. so don't think that you are better than them.

Listen the Americans don't have better intelligence in this area. Actually TTP is a baby of indians and Americans. So ISI has done an excellent job in breaking up their safe havens. Can't u see India and USA panicking already.

 

[hkdas]

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Listen the Americans don't have better intelligence in this area. Actually TTP is a baby of indians and Americans. So ISI has done an excellent job in breaking up their safe havens. Can't u see India and USA panicking already.

kid, TTP is brother of Afghan taliban formed by ISI and CIA in 90s india is considered as an enemy by those terrorists .. don't argue with your propaganda knowledge.. learn the history of 1st. CIA have better intelligence than ISI in that area because of their capability is far head of ISI... with limited resources your ISI cannot match CIA.

 

[Areesh]

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Aur baqi film TTP kai supporters kai paas daikhi jaye gi.