Irfan Baloch
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the title of the thread suggests that the militants are marching and capturing areas and pushing the state forces back. Hence it’s a bit misleading just like the TTP in Sawat when it burnt down the courts in Bunair, the west started shouting that Taliban were 60 miles away from Islamabad (note that it’s a flight distance and Imran Khan famously responded to this in one of his speeches saying yes ..Islamabad is as far as a crow flies”.. hope you get the joke)
In reality they can be anywhere, they disguise as locals and civilians and roam about and when they don’t see any drone or helicopter or security posts and conveys they come out wave their weapons, harass and shoot locals as punishment for siding with the army and then vanish.
They wait and stay undercover and then pop out when there is no one to stop them and resume.
There are other videos of their “soldiers” marching in uniform in one busy market of an federal agency, while the people are busy with their daily business. The whole scene is for 5 mins (mainly for propaganda and show) and then they vanish in the streets.
Militants know too well that security forces can’t be every where or come to an area fast enough every time while they are there. While army has to restore order, rebuild and deploy, militants have no such obligation, they can move on, leave their dead, find another hiding place to regroup and plan and strike where there is least or no resistance to stop them
But on one hand Pakistan army and ISI is so smart and clever that its getting American aid and allegedly supporting the Taliban that are fighting NATO, on the other hand its killing its own people and copying the TTP
makes perfect sense yea.....?
if US policy makers want a proof how little control NATO and ANA has over Afghanistan then they should see the footage of the attacks in Kabul, Kandahar, Lashker Gah and the abandoned bases and check posts of NATO now occupied by Taliban.
coming to the little control, this is proof enough that Pakistan army cant open yet another front in North Waziristan while the rest of the area is not secured.
hopefully US think tanks , advisor and media will be careful in selecting videos and stories that don’t strengthen the Pakistani argument for reasons not to expand the war on terror and open new fronts.
It will be comical if Kyani or Pasha play this video to visiting Americans and say, see ? we told you so.. we need to pacify these areas first before we launch new operations elsewhere.
In reality they can be anywhere, they disguise as locals and civilians and roam about and when they don’t see any drone or helicopter or security posts and conveys they come out wave their weapons, harass and shoot locals as punishment for siding with the army and then vanish.
They wait and stay undercover and then pop out when there is no one to stop them and resume.
There are other videos of their “soldiers” marching in uniform in one busy market of an federal agency, while the people are busy with their daily business. The whole scene is for 5 mins (mainly for propaganda and show) and then they vanish in the streets.
Militants know too well that security forces can’t be every where or come to an area fast enough every time while they are there. While army has to restore order, rebuild and deploy, militants have no such obligation, they can move on, leave their dead, find another hiding place to regroup and plan and strike where there is least or no resistance to stop them
maybe to his logic, maybe to shoot in its own foot? maybe its bored that only Americans, Afghans and TTP are against it and not the peaceful people of tribal areas.
But on one hand Pakistan army and ISI is so smart and clever that its getting American aid and allegedly supporting the Taliban that are fighting NATO, on the other hand its killing its own people and copying the TTP
makes perfect sense yea.....?
if US policy makers want a proof how little control NATO and ANA has over Afghanistan then they should see the footage of the attacks in Kabul, Kandahar, Lashker Gah and the abandoned bases and check posts of NATO now occupied by Taliban.
coming to the little control, this is proof enough that Pakistan army cant open yet another front in North Waziristan while the rest of the area is not secured.
hopefully US think tanks , advisor and media will be careful in selecting videos and stories that don’t strengthen the Pakistani argument for reasons not to expand the war on terror and open new fronts.
It will be comical if Kyani or Pasha play this video to visiting Americans and say, see ? we told you so.. we need to pacify these areas first before we launch new operations elsewhere.
This area should be renamed as TTPstan since Pakistan has no control over it.
