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Pakistan's offensive pushes out Haqqani Network: US
[The Nation (Pak)] A top American diplomat says the United States believes Pakistain's counterinsurgency operation in North .png) Wazoo has pushed the bad boy Haqqani network out of the country's restive tribal region in the northwest.U.S. Special Representative for Pakistain and Afghanistan James Dobbins said Tuesday the U.S. will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to those displaced by the offensive, VOA reported. Dobbins visited Pakistain and Afghanistan this week to discuss political and security issues with leaders in both countries. A day after meeting senior political and military leaders in Islamabad, he told news hounds in Kabul that talks revolved around the Mighty Pak Army's anti-militancy operation in Pakistain's North Waziristan tribal district. "The operation in North Waziristan seems to be a quite a massive operation. The army has taken a number of casualties," said Dobbins. "It has inflicted an even larger number of casualties on both domestic and foreign Death Eaters in the area, including Afghans. It has seized huge amounts of ammunition of IED-precursor material and bomb-making facilities, particularly in Miranshah." ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... On the other hand... Pak military offensive didn't affect terrorist networks: Afghan intelligence claims Kabul-The Afghan intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS) claimed that the Pak military offensive did not have any effect on terrorist networks including the Haqqani Network. Haseeb Sediqi, front man for the National Directorate of security (NDS) told news hounds that the North Wazoo operation did not have any satisfactory outcome since the offensive did not harm any of the terrorist networks, said media reports.Sediqi further added that one of the most important terrorist networks — Haqqani Network remained safe from the offensive as the network leaders were taken to safe locations along with several leaders from other terrorist networks. He said NDS has received information which shows that the Haqqani Network leaders were shifted to Kurram agency, Quetta, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and even Islamabad. According to Sediqi, the Haqqani Networks leaders, members and their equipments including weapons were taken to Kurram agency two weeks before the offensive was launched. Sediqi said the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... and other terrorist networks also remained during the operation. Sediqi added that the deadly boom-mobileing in Orgun district of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province was one of the attacks carried out by Haqqani Network. Posted by: Fred 2014-07-24 |
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