Pakistani Army Soldier Tweeted His Frightening Encounter With the Taliban

[The Sandman]

Okay Time for a real story then. Written by Lt Col Fahd Ayub Published in Hilal Magazine. Showing the loyal, trustworthy side of FC and how young captain led a brave counterattack

Defending Dandi Katch checkpost in N. Waziristan

The account of a terrorists' attack on a Frontier Corps Post on Sep 16, 2014. The terrorists came from across the border, used Afghan soil, formed up and attacked this post located on Pak-Afghan border in North Waziristan Sector. The brave Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers fought valiantly and killed many attackers. The attack was repulsed and terrorists again fled to the safe havens inside Afghanistan.

F.C. Post Dandi Katch Map - Pakistan - Mapcarta

Surrounded by high and rugged mountains of 'Koh-e-Sufaid Range,' Dandi Katch is a complex of posts on Pak-Afghan border guarding the entrance of road Dandi Katch–Spinwam through the Kaithu Valley and further leads to settled areas of Bannu and Thal. While 'Zinda' and 'Zangi' posts are located on high ridges on the shoulders of Kaithu River, 'Base Check Post' is low lying astride river on the road to check and process any movement across the border. The weather is extreme in both the seasons on these barren mountains including the valley comprising remote areas of Tehsil Spinwam, North Waziristan Agency (NWA).

On the night of September 16, 2014, these posts were being manned by troops of fearless '124 Wing Tochi Scouts (Frontier Corps).' I was commanding the wing on that night. A smart and brave officer from Sindh province, Captain Zahid Ali, was the Company Commander and was present at Zinda Post.


His men belonged to diverse tribes of FATA. A battery of medium artillery guns was also deployed at the near vicinity to provide fire support. On September 16, 2014, more than 500 terrorists, using safe havens inside Afghanistan, launched an unprecedented, determined and fierce physical attack on all three posts of Dandi Katch from multiple directions. I was immediately informed about the attack. Upon receiving the information, I contacted Captain Zahid and issued necessary instructions. I also ordered the Gun Position Officer (GPO), Captain Afzaal to engage targets with artillery fire in support of the posts under attack. I positioned myself in the Command Post and got in touch with superior headquarters as well as my troops and passed on necessary instructions. After few minutes, I was contacted by Captain Zahid, who in his confident voice on wireless set told me, “Terrorists have ringed my position and we are receiving heavy mortar and rocket fire from southwestern direction from the Elongated Ridge. But we are well positioned and will defend each inch of Pakistan.”

As a Commanding Officer, I was much satisfied with the confidence level of my under command. I told him to stay resolute and keep the enemy off the post area. As soon as the rounds of artillery guns were fired upon the enemy, they reacted back and started firing with long range weapons. I heard the dreadful whistle of 107 mm rockets normally used for long range attacks. The enemy had started to target the Fort and the gun position with rockets. I instructed Captain Afzaal to ensure unhindered fire support to Dandi Katch and use different caliber of guns to engage probable rocket launch sites. I wonder who provides the terrorists with these long range sophisticated weapons normally used by armies.


The terrorists attacked in waves on Zinda Post and partially destroyed the Observation Post (OP) and the bunker on southwestern edge. Lance Naik Abid, Lance Naik Hameed Akbar Khattak, Sepoy Jan Mohmand, and Sepoy Sajid Muhammad Bangash had already embraced Shahadat on Zinda Post. At this stage, Captain Zahid Ali launched a local counter attack, evicted the terrorists and regained the defence of the post. Meanwhile, Sepoy Rehman Ali Yousafzai embraced Shahadat while providing fire support to the counter attacking force with his automatic gun. A suicide bomber exploded 50 metres short of bunker on northern perimeter as he got entangled in the wire obstacles and Naib Subedar Said Nabi fired at him from close range.

This JCO was also assisting us by directing the artillery fire and providing timely and accurate information which proved very useful in effectively neutralizing terrorists’ hiding in the folds of the ground. Captain Afzaal from 28 Medium Regiment (Artillery), engaged these locations using air burst rounds and forced them to quit their endeavours. The rocket site was eventually neutralized that took pressure off from the gun position.

The progress of attack on Zangi Post was stalled by 03.00 a.m. in the morning but the volume of fire from enemy was still intense. The combination of well-orchestrated automatic fire from all nearby posts and accurate artillery fire finally broke the will of attackers on Base Check Post and Zangi Post by 3:45 a.m. allowing them to provide close fire support to Zinda Post which was still under attack. The terrorists wanted to capture the post at all costs as a last desperate effort to gain some notion of victory.

Failing, they started the withdrawal at around 4:30 a.m. towards Zakir Khel, a border village of Afghanistan suffering heavy casualties; but dragging their dead with them. During the mopping up activity with combat aviation support after the dawn, three dead bodies of the terrorists were found, one Afghan terrorist was captured alive but he was seriously injured and could not survive.

Three AK-47 rifles, six grenades, eight magazines, two wireless sets and a night vision device (all foreign made equipment) were also recovered. Two days later, a wing from Tochi Scouts along with two infantry battalions conducted the clearance operation of Datta Khel village, where a local terrorist commander Amir Khatim, who had participated in the attack, also resided. He had fled to Afghanistan after the attack, however, huge cache of arms, explosives and ammunition was recovered from his residence.


The brave soldiers of 124 Wing Tochi Scouts carried out successful defence of the motherland in line with traditions of FC KPK. These brave sons of soil, night after night, and month after month stand vigilant to guard all the outposts in FATA and along Pak-Afghan international border; often under extremely challenging conditions. Availability of sanctuaries and safe havens in border region of Afghanistan can continue to feed and fuel attacks on Pakistan. The Shahadat of soldiers saddens me as each one leaves behind an untold personal story; but September 16, 2014 will be remembered as a proud day in the history of FC KPK, and, for the brave sons of Tochi Scouts who taught enemies of Pakistan, a lesson they will never forget!

ISPR Hilal Magazine - TERROR FROM ACROSS THE BORDER DEFENDING DANDI KATCH

Thanks for this share @Zibago @django @Moonlight @Hell hound @PaklovesTurkiye you guys should read this!

 

[Thorough Pro]

Haha

Interesting observation.

Which are these words ?

 

[third eye]

Dear sir,

Please let me apologise for the ignorant rant you had to face and thank you for gracefully educating everyone including him (if he is willing).

Please don't apologise. We are here to exchange views , opinions & share experiences.

o me the narrative is semi real and the target audience is clearly the xbox/ Hollywood inspired generation. I don’t understand how he ends up with a troop of FC tanks. His jibe for paramilitary is missed by people here. Also regarding your comments in earlier post about machine.. I cant agree enough.. my old man has himself narrated some near misses and tragic ends during his service machine/ weapons are unforgiving.

Those who operate with equipment know & realise how unforgiving it can be, so can be ammunition.

I know many who came to grief for taking short cuts or being carelessness in handling both ammo & equipment. Loss of limb is the least among the troubles a man can encounter.

Re your highlighted sentence in the end.. it says it all without saying it and I can describe it in 2 words and leave it there “bloody SOPs”.

Agreed.

Tactical SOPs are not always followed , they serve as a guide a sort of gut reaction to a given situation . That does not take away the need to know them essentially because thats how the team also is trained think.

However with equipment / Ammo , they have to be followed.

 

[third eye]

@third eye @Irfan Baloch

The only reason I can think of for the soldier hiding in line with the tracks is if the Taliban guys were at ground level and firing and he was worried about his legs being hit from below the tank? Possible??

Under fire its natural to look for cover of any kind. Being in the open it was natural to stop behind a tank , take stock and decide the next course of action.

Which the officer did .

 

[hawksway4]

Under fire its natural to look for cover of any kind. Being in the open it was natural to stop behind a tank , take stock and decide the next course of action.

Which the officer did .

Why didnt he continue moving backwards behind the tank? And the tank staff didnt tell higher command that we are one short of our officer once they went back???>>??>>??

 

[Reichsmarschall]

There are some words spelled the way only Indians spell them, probably a lame attempt to make fun of Pakistani soldiers and make them look bad

Can you point out those words??

The Army Guy is advertising Jobs on twitter.
Am sure he is a wanna be "Fauji Afsar" who was rejected in ISSB thrice.

 

[oFFbEAT]

Looks like a fake account attributed to an unknown Pakistani officer. There are some words spelled the way only Indians spell them, probably a lame attempt to make fun of Pakistani soldiers and make them look bad. Never believe everything on the internet, always look at the hidden message / meaning. Our enemy is very cunning and un-ethical and will do any and everything to make us look bad.

You're a true Pakistani, everything you dislike, you attribute that to Indians, you don't even spare your soldiers.....keep it up...

 

[WebMaster]

Love it. Glad he made it safe.

 

[Sage]

Awesome story ......

 

[Bouncer]

How they selected him as an officer?
He is using some serious language in his tweets imagine the soldiers under his command.
also, if you are penetrating enemy territory you should expect ambush and people who setup ambush usually wait for the pray to be close before they open on them. this causes max damage and panic. In my view the mental capacity of this officer is of a normal person not even a solider. he was expecting ideal case scenario in the war that is ambush at long range, engage with tanks and victory (seriously).

Lol if you think officers/Jawans use a nafees language ..

And double Lol if you think this guy handled himself poorly. You'd probably shit yourself out of your mouth when the first bullet whizzed pass you. It takes nerves of steel to handle the situation this officer described he did. And then live to tweet about.

 

[Azad-Kashmiri]

I couldn't talk because the terrorists eavesdrop on radiocomm

People are busy commenting on the silly story, and don't see the weaknesses he's exposing in the forj!

Unbelievable! Why have we not got secure comms? Where does the money go? And people on this forum are talking about fighting Hindustan. Can't even equip to fight rag tag terrorists, what a shame!

 

[NomanAli89]

Is it real or fake ? if real then this SOB deserve to die ASAP .... what kind of crap army is hiring these days? Must be a Sifarshiya

 

[HAIDER]

LIFE
A Pakistani Army Soldier Tweeted His Frightening Encounter With the Taliban

By S.K Pakistan
Posted on April 27, 2016

Everyone loves a good story, especially when it’s not fictional and is actually based on real events. Such a story was told yesterday by a Pakistan Army soldier who tweeted his encounter with the Taliban in the Mohmand Agency.

The exceptionally well-written story was praised by Pakistani Twitterati and journalists – they spoke of the soldier’s writing skills and his bravery. The story is funny and nerve-wracking at the same time. You’re going to absolutely love it!





AND SO HE BEGAN…

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Okay so this one time in Mohmand Agency, we were ordered to mop up a valley (clear it off terrorists)
26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
We were already half way inside the valley and had setup a stronghold just beyond their mortar range. @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
But someone had to advance further ahead and penetrate the line of fire. For that, my CO chose me. @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
And like a good little qurbani k bakra that I was I said yessirr!@TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
So I had a squadron of tanks under my command and I was leading the squadron. Slowly creeping further inside their territory@TheGutterfly
26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
That was my first independent operation that I conducted so I was also very nervous. But I had to show my men
@TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
That I have nerves of steel right (bullshit I was scared shitless) but I stood up on the back side of the turret in the open @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
I was roaring and we were raising battle cries and whatnot. Okay one more thing...@TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
The squadrons that were attached with our outfit, they were a part of the FC. And trust me when I say that don't trust the FC@TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Anyhoo, we crept further inside and strangely enough we weren't being raided by the fire which I was expecting. @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
The idea was to locate the terrorists when they'd fire and then engage them from long distance with my tanks. @TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
But those conniving motherfuckers let me in further. I know what you're thinking. I had to know better. But I dint. @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
As I was standing behind the opened cupola and sharing the possibility of an ambush with the tank commander .. @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Along came the infamous whizzing sound of a bullet. It nearly missed the tk comd's head and almost tore the cupola.@TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
As a result the tk comdr immediately shut down the cupola and went inside the tk. Now I was out in the open without any cover@TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
When u've been in war long enough u observe little things about the surroundings that come in handy. It's called minor tactics@TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
@TheGutterfly in a layman's terms, had it hit me, it would've torn me to pieces. So anyways..


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
So I'm standing on the tank shouting ******** at the top of my voice and I jumped behind the tank and laid my back against@TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
..track of the tanks. And then guess what @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
The fucking driver lost his shit completely and started reversing the fucking tank. @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
I shouted and cursed him at the top of my voice but the joke was on me because he couldn't hear me over the sound of intense@TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
...fire and the tanks engine. So I had only two ways two go. Left or right. Both suicide because I had to expose myself to @TheGutterfly



26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
..the incoming. So I read nad e Ali and started running like a dog towards the line of trees some 300 meters away to my right@TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
While I was running with the AK47 hanging at my back and cursing myself for wearing a thigh holster with my viking.. @TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
I was recalling those movies where the guy who's about to die gets flashes of his life and loved ones and whatnot.. @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
I tried thinking about my mum and dad and girlfriend but they just wouldn't come. I couldn't even make myself think about@TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Them. I kept cursing all those movies all the while running with intense machine gun, 12.7 mm, 14.5, mortar and sniper@TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Firing at me with all their might. Because they had figured that I was the officer and it's better to kill an officer than @TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
A battalion of non commissioned. So I escaped the first volley and jumped inside the clump. But it seemed as if they were@TheGutterfly

https://twitter.com/TheGutterfly
26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Eveeywhere. @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Now I was detached from my men completely. The FC tanks had abandoned me and had started withdrawing. @TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
The sun was slowly setting and the evenings chill was taking over the days warmth @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
My camos were drenched in mud, knee high from running through a swamp (something I dint realise while running) @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
I had scratches all over my hands and face from jumping in the clump. They were still firing but it was gradually @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Slowing down. My worst nightmare (Because that means that they've stopped firing from distance and are closing in on you)@TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
I lit up my last cigarette in day light and started looking for better cover @TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Kept running way inside the jungle. I saw a graveyard.@TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
The night was settling in, the graveyard seemed very old with only rocks for tombstones and a couple of vaccant graves @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Of sorts... @TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
I dug a little deeper with my hands and bayonet and helmet and filled it up with dried leaves. @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
It was to be my sanctuary for the night. Now I could hear those fuckers in the distance @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
I hid my helmet in the other grave , lied down in the grave and covered myself up with leaves. @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
My AK on my chest with its muzzle on my crotch, the weapon was unsafe and my finger in the trigger guard @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
I was more worried about shooting my dick off in accidental fire than the terrorists @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Now I could hear their voices very clearly. They were speaking in Pushto and arguing about if there was one guy or two.@TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Thankfully they agreed on two. I could hear the sound of my heart pounding out of my chest. It was intense. @TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
It started itching on my groin as they were less than 20 paces away from me @TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Ugh it was so fucking tantalizing. But I couldn't because obviously, how fucking dumb are you? @TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
They kept roaming about the area for a couple of hours and went back to their hideout. @TheGutterfly


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
I opened my radio and started listening. I couldn't talk because the terrorists eavesdrop on radiocomm @TheGutterfly



26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
@TheGutterfly so I just pressed the pushin and kept it pressed


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
When somebody pressed the pushin button on a radio device, no one remains able to talk on that particular channel. @TheGutterfly
26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
@TheGutterfly I kept it pressed for an hour before my CO got pissed off and got everyone's Motorola checked. And then it hit the Jarhead


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
That it might've been me trying to give a signal that cheeky bastard@TheGutterfly

26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
@TheGutterfly so he called on the main channel, called me out and asked me to switch to channel 3 if I was listening. I did.


26 Apr
Gov'nor @TheGutterfly
Then I sent him my gps loc in morse code and he sent a rescue team. @TheGutterfly


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The end. @TheGutterf4:56 AM - 26 Apr 2016




http://www.parhlo.com/a-pakistani-army-soldier-tweeted-his-frightening-encounter-with-the-taliban/

It all seems fabricated or dramatized....sensationalized

 

[TheNoob]

Lol if you think officers/Jawans use a nafees language ..

And double Lol if you think this guy handled himself poorly. You'd probably shit yourself out of your mouth when the first bullet whizzed pass you. It takes nerves of steel to handle the situation this officer described he did. And then live to tweet about.

Triple lol if you believe a faulty story like the one in OP.

 

[Bouncer]

Triple lol if you believe a faulty story like the one in OP.

Its just a good read man. I don't have to believe it to enjoy it. But I do believe that my first post is still valid with regards to what the gentleman said. So quadruple lol?