Terrorists attacking Pakistan from Afghanistan

[Spring Onion]

So does anyone want the U.S. to lose against the Taliban ? Because there will be many more coming in if that happens to be the case.

Its not about Taliban or Invader US but its about people of Afghanistan.
We want every group in Afghanistan should be given its due share and representation in power so that no one should be needing to interfere for protecting its borders and integrity .

 

[Jigs]

Well personally, someone would have to be thick in the head to fantasies about a scenario like that. But take the latest development across the border: UK troops to pull out of Sangin - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - Al Jazeera English

Just goes to show how volatile and fluid the situation in Afghanistan still is, it is not as simple as many think. And many of the concerns of Pakistan are totally justified.

If the Americans do loose, who do you think stands to suffer most? I will tell you who, the Afghani and Pakistani people. That’s who!



And they have the audacity to say "Pakistan does not commit enough troops"...



What happens if NATO lose control of Helmand? Where are those guys headed to re-supply and re-arm?

It is clearly evident that Pakistan is faced with a very difficult fight on its hands, its operations in FATA and its continued worries about Taliban influence in Quetta and Baluchistan. To claim that all in Pakistan are having "wet-dreams" of the glorious Taliban destroying the evil goliath that is USA... Well im sorry but that is both naive and far from the truth.

No doubt Pakistan has it very rough. In the end NATO could always pull out and go home. While pakistan is fighting on their home. So the troop commitment statement doesn't even make sense.

The post was referring to people that prefer it if America lost and blame them for the terrorism that is now going on. I wasn't directing it at the vast majority of course.

 

[Jigs]

Its not about Taliban or Invader US but its about people of Afghanistan.
We want every group in Afghanistan should be given its due share and representation in power so that no one should be needing to interfere for protecting its borders and integrity .

Share of power sure. Not the Taliban though as their oppressive government does not compute with the direction Afghanistan is going. They no longer have a say.

 

[GUNNER]

Bajaur’s role in Mohmand attack

By Syed Talat Hussain

July 11, 2010

The writer is executive director news and current affairs at Aaj TV (syed.talat@tribune.com.pk).

July 9’s devastating attack at the gate of the political administration’s office in Yaka Gund, Mohmand Agency, where members of peace committees were supposed to meet, is so far the bloodiest since the campaign against terrorists began in all earnest two years ago. Over 100 people have lost their lives and over two hundred were injured, some so badly that their lives might not be worth living. However, while the attack has been carried out in Mohmand, it cannot be separated from the worsening situation in Bajaur Agency, and to a lesser degree, Dir district. In fact it would be fair to say that though Mohmand felt the tremors, the force behind the lethal jolt came from Bajaur.

This is further evidence of the changing nature of Bajaur Agency’s centrality to the war against organised militancy. From a keystone of the larger successful military campaign in the south, Malakand on the whole and Swat in particular, Bajaur has become a staging ground of a revived, and ferocious, terror campaign mocking official claims of having established the state’s writ in this region.

We all know that the victory in Swat against the gangs of Mullah Fazlullah was built on the efforts in Bajaur. In the initial stages of doubt about the military’s ability to crush the Taliban, the operations in Loi Sam and Inayat Killay were used to pump up morale. Also the Swat militants were hemmed in from Bajaur, and hammered in their heartland in the Swat valley. If Faqir Muhammad’s network had not been disabled in Bajaur, nothing would have stopped the Swat insurgents from recuperating in the neighbourhood and relaunching themselves again on the battlefield.

Also it was in Bajaur and Mohmand that the Frontier Corps came of age as a force — a fact that was crucial in shaping the environment for a rewarding assault in Swat. Just as crucial is the fact that in the Salarzai area, for the first time a tribal lashkar was organised at a large scale to supplant the military campaign to deny the militants space. For these reasons Bajaur was to become a model of ‘clear, hold and build’ concept as there was much planning done to bring back the internally displaced persons and to put this area on the path to enviable progress.


Ironically, this centre of hope in the tribal belt has begun to slip badly, sending shockwaves of instability that might even rock Swat.

Bajaur’s slow slide into growing trouble is because of Kunar governor, 55-year-old Haji Syed Fazlullah Wahidi. For almost a year he has provided sanctuary in his area to retreating militants. New reports suggest that he is actively recruiting the locals offering up to Rs25,000 for bringing in foot-soldiers and spies. I have seen the documentary evidence of agreements that some prominent locals have struck with the governor’s native interlocutors identifying Pakistan’s security forces as the common enemy and vowing to arm and replenish the Tehreek-i-Taliban in the areas where Bajaur and Mohmand meet. It is inconceivable that the Kunar governor is running this organised terror campaign on his own without the knowledge and approval of Nato and Isaf’s commanders.

But that’s half the problem. The other half is internal. Bajaur is a classic case of opportunity lost through neglect and lack of vision. Two years after the militants were blown away, the area is damaged and broken with no signs of any revival much less reconstruction. The local administration is weak and forever short on funds. There has been no effective planning to block and weed out militants who melted back into the local population. There are disturbing reports of members of anti-Taliban lashkars being bought off by militants through front men. Faqir Muhammad is still at large and for some odd reason his brother is seen moving around freely. More dispiriting is that official policy has been almost static in the face of rapidly changing militant tactics.

Our forces continue to plough the increasingly problematic counter-insurgency furrow that has the militant in focus rather than the public. But the biggest let-down in Bajaur has been the total abdication of responsibility by the central government leadership. Islamabad slept while Bajaur started to simmer and then began to burn. And now the fire is spreading everywhere.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Bajaur’s slow slide into growing trouble is because of Kunar governor, 55-year-old Haji Syed Fazlullah Wahidi. For almost a year he has provided sanctuary in his area to retreating militants. New reports suggest that he is actively recruiting the locals offering up to Rs25,000 for bringing in foot-soldiers and spies. I have seen the documentary evidence of agreements that some prominent locals have struck with the governor’s native interlocutors identifying Pakistan’s security forces as the common enemy and vowing to arm and replenish the Tehreek-i-Taliban in the areas where Bajaur and Mohmand meet. It is inconceivable that the Kunar governor is running this organised terror campaign on his own without the knowledge and approval of Nato and Isaf’s commanders.

I am surprised that Talat Hussain took such a strong position on this issue and was so categorical about the evidence. I have followed him a little, and he comes across as a very down to earth and objective journalist.

His claim of seeing 'documentary evidence' is something I would take as credible, though I am not sure I agree with his subsequent extrapolation that NATO and ISAF are directly involved, given that NATO is just as frustrated (according to the Western media) with corruption and double dealing by Afghanistan's government and security forces.

Nor is the claim here of the Khan of Konar being involved in these activities a new one - various journalists working for various Pakistan media outlets have argued the same over the past year, and Gen. Tariq Khan (FC) himself stated as much in an interview with Western media.

 

[Patriot]

I don't think NATO is involved.It is largely Afghan Intel along with NA top Leadership.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

I don't think NATO is involved.It is largely Afghan Intel along with NA top Leadership.

Also, given that Karzai is so dependent upon all these warlords and tribal leaders supporting him, he may not have any choice in the matter.

The real power rests with the Afghan intelligence and military (after NATO) and given the control of those entities (till recently at least) by people like Amrullah Saleh and other former Northern Alliance warlord supporters and associates, they may have indeed supported pushing terrorists into Pakistan as a sort of 'payback' for perceived Pakistani support for other Afghan Taliban factions.

 

[mjnaushad]

I wonder why some members support the statements that infiltrators from Pakistan are going in Afghanistan but when same things goes opposite they suddenly change their standard. Shows their mindset....

If people belive that Infiltrators from Pakistan goes to Afghanistan then why some people find it hard to believe that terrorist from Afghanistan also come to Pakistan...And as we know all great forces in Afghanistan have opted a new strategy in which the posts in remote areas are being rolled back to urban areas.

 

[iPhone]

Bajaur’s role in Mohmand attack


Bajaur’s slow slide into growing trouble is because of Kunar governor, 55-year-old Haji Syed Fazlullah Wahidi. For almost a year he has provided sanctuary in his area to retreating militants. New reports suggest that he is actively recruiting the locals offering up to Rs25,000 for bringing in foot-soldiers and spies. I have seen the documentary evidence of agreements that some prominent locals have struck with the governor’s native interlocutors identifying Pakistan’s security forces as the common enemy and vowing to arm and replenish the Tehreek-i-Taliban in the areas where Bajaur and Mohmand meet. It is inconceivable that the Kunar governor is running this organised terror campaign on his own without the knowledge and approval of Nato and Isaf’s commanders.

Then there shouldn't be any reason why Pakistan shouldn't use air strike against this khabees sitting in Afghanistan causing mayhem inside Pakistan. Fly couple of F-16s and bomb him and his devil's worshippers to oblivion. U.S. does the same with their drone strikes inside Pakistan.
Secondly, I strongly believe it's in both Pakistan and Afghanistan's interest to fence their border. Fence it, barbwire it, electrify it, mine it, radiate it, do something to step this free ticket across these two nations.