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What is incomprehensible is why the police are being deployed in such tactically sensitive areas. Why can't para military forces like the Frontier Corps or Pakistan Rangers be deployed here being better trained and equipped than the police? With a strength of a hundred thousand each, it's not as if they are short of manpower. Why can't they be pulled out from less sensitive locations and deployed in vulnerable areas like Jabai etc?
Levies have the lowest budget, rendering it the "cheapest available law enforcement agency". However, many critics have contended that the force being mostly locals has been used by Baloch tribal chiefs to serve their own interests!! So what do you expect from them as a force?Levies are Paramilitary Policemen like CRPF.
Frontier Corps and Pakistan Rangers are Paramilitaries like BSF,ITBP.
Taliban militants have shot dead 21 Pakistani soldiers whom they had kidnapped earlier during an assault on two camps in the volatile northwest of the country.
Officials say the bodies were discovered shortly after midnight in the Jabai area of the Peshawar District. This comes after some 200 insurgents, armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, stormed two government paramilitary camps outside the city of Peshawar on Thursday. Two security personnel were killed and another 23 were kidnapped.
One of the hostages managed to escape and another one was found seriously injured, top local official Naveed Akbar Khan said.
"We found 21 bullet riddled bodies of security personnel a short while ago in an uninhabited area," Khan told AFP. "One was found alive but wounded and admitted to hospital while another managed to escape unhurt."
The hands of soldiers were tied with rope before they were shot," another government official Gul Shehzad said.
He added that the Taliban had accepted responsibility for the attack.
Taliban kills 21 kidnapped Pakistani soldiers RT
PESHAWAR: As many as 21 paramilitary soldiers abducted during a militant attack on check-posts on Thursday in FR Peshawar have been killed, Geo News reported Sunday.
Correspondent says the Levies personnel have been shot dead and their bodies have been dumped in Hasan Khel area of FR Peshawar.
He says that political officials and members of local Jirga were sent to the area to retrieve the bodies. All the bodies have been identified and families of the victims have been informed about the killings.
The proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan have claimed responsibility for the killings of security officials.
The shooting of the soldiers came a day after Pakistan Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud said in a video message the militants were willing to negotiate a ceasefire deal. However, he refused to disarm.
AFP adds,Taliban militants have shot dead 21 Pakistani soldiers who were kidnapped three days ago in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
The soldiers were abducted from two government paramilitary camps outside Peshawar on Thursday and the bodies were discovered about four kilometres away.
"We found 21 bullet riddled bodies of security personnel a short while ago in an uninhabited area," local government official Naveed Akbar told AFP.
"One was found alive but wounded and admitted to hospital while another managed to escape unhurt."
Gul Shehzad, another government official, said authorities received information just before midnight that some bodies were lying in the wilderness within about four kilometres of the camps.
"The hands of soldiers were tied with rope before they were shot," Shehzad told AFP.
He said Taliban militants had accepted the responsibility for the kidnappings.
Taliban kill 21 kidnapped Pak soldiers - thenews.com.pk
The porous border is itself an enemy along with the terrain. Unless border security is beefed up, one can't stop infiltrations.I dont fucken get it. Pakistan has a strong *** defense force so why dont they just unleash hell on these garbage Talibs. RIPs to those policemen.
Levis are below CRPF. CRPF is much more dangerous than BSF etc. Believe me, they are more capable of these anti terrorism operations, guerrilla warfare etc. If we had sent BSF in Naxal areas, we will be receiving body bags every day, in dozens.Levies are Paramilitary Policemen like CRPF.
Frontier Corps and Pakistan Rangers are Paramilitaries like BSF,ITBP.
This is what we feared. One can't expect negotiations with TTP. Smoke them, bomb them and cut their heads. Mine the damn borders, you can handle US later on.
The porous border is itself an enemy along with the terrain. Unless border security is beefed up, one can't stop infiltrations.
Levis are below CRPF. CRPF is much more dangerous than BSF etc. Believe me, they are more capable of these anti terrorism operations, guerrilla warfare etc. If we had sent BSF in Naxal areas, we will be receiving body bags every day, in dozens.
Remember in Kashmir:Incidentally, former BSF chief E N Ram Mohan, who was appointed by the Union Home Ministry to enquire into the causes and lapses for the April six Dantewada incident in which 76 securitymen lost their lives, had recently hinted that BSF and ITBP were better trained to handle insurgency.
"Preferably, in insurgency, BSF and ITBP should be deployed," he had said.
10,000 more BSF personnel for anti-Naxal ops : India, News - India Today
Agreed but in urban warfare and guerrilla attacks, CRPF has also delivered result. Have met BSF people, they like CRPF and their way of working.Lolz
BSF is paramilitary force whereas CRPF is central police force.
BSF is much better trained to handle insurgencies.
Remember in Kashmir:
Till late 1989 the insurgents were dealt by police.
From 1990-1992 CRPF dealt with the militants.1992-1994 BSF replaced CRPF in counter-insurgency ops.From 1994 Army led and won the counter-insurgency.
:: Lt Gen Arjun Ray (Retd) ::
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I dont fucken get it. Pakistan has a strong *** defense force so why dont they just unleash hell on these garbage Talibs. RIPs to those policemen.
Ḥashshāshīn;3747047 said:They weren't soldiers buddy. They were tribal police men. Anyway, I hope Pak army gets a wake up call and launches a full offensive and wipes these scums out. Enough is enough, too many people have died.
Lolz
BSF is paramilitary force whereas CRPF is central police force.
BSF is much better trained to handle insurgencies.
Remember in Kashmir:
Till late 1989 the insurgents were dealt by police.
From 1990-1992 CRPF dealt with the militants.
1992-1994 BSF replaced CRPF in counter-insurgency ops.
From 1994 Army led and won the counter-insurgency.
:: Lt Gen Arjun Ray (Retd) ::
Lolz
BSF is paramilitary force whereas CRPF is central police force.
BSF is much better trained to handle insurgencies.
Remember in Kashmir:
Till late 1989 the insurgents were dealt by police.
From 1990-1992 CRPF dealt with the militants.
1992-1994 BSF replaced CRPF in counter-insurgency ops.
From 1994 Army led and won the counter-insurgency.
:: Lt Gen Arjun Ray (Retd) ::
They were not soldiers..
They were paramilitary.....
R-I-P
I dont fucken get it. Pakistan has a strong *** defense force so why dont they just unleash hell on these garbage Talibs. RIPs to those policemen.
Taliban ne phir cho* k rakh de..When they were kidnapped they should have planned a rescue mission involving SSG.
Instead they let them die in pain and suffering this is true face of our higher command and forces now a days.
Taliban ne phir cho* k rakh de..When they were kidnapped they should have planned a rescue mission involving SSG.
Instead they let them die in pain and suffering this is true face of our higher command and forces now a days.