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| Pakistan: Govt claims Lower Dir under control |
| 2009-04-29 |
| [ADN Kronos] Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik said late on Monday that security forces had gained complete control of the restive Northwest Frontier Province district of Lower Dir, but that Islamic militants were still active in NWFP's Buner district. Addressing a seminar, Malik categorised the Taliban elements, who were active in Buner and Lower Dir as extremist and said: "We will not tolerate them anymore." However he added that there had been an attack on border police in the past 24 hours and there had been reports of shops being looted. Malik stopped short of calling the militants terrorists and said that there are moderate Taliban and extremist Taliban. "Some of the Taliban were forcing the villagers to join them," he said. He added that all efforts are being made to contain the activities of these extremists who are threatening the villagers about imposing their system by force. Rehman Malik said a befitting response was being given to the militants who carried out attacks by breaking into paramilitary Frontier Corps camps . "No one will be allowed to challenge the writ of the government," Malik warned. He said that the announcement has already been made by Pakistan's prime minister and reiterated that if peace was not restored in the region, the controversial Swat Peace agreement signed in February between Taliban-led militants and the NWFP government would be scrapped. A spokesman for Sufi Muhammad, the cleric who negotiated the Swat peace deal, announced on Monday the Taliban's talks with the NWFP government had been suspended amid the army operations against militants in Lower Dir. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 ION BHARAT RAKSHAK [Indian]> PAKISTANI ARMY FEARS DISINTEGRATION [military, National]IFF WAR ORDERED AGZ TALIBAN + BALOCHISTAN SCHOOLS ABANDON PAKISTAN NATIONAL ANTHEM. Also on BR > SAUDI EX-INTEL CHIEF: PAKISTANI ARMY COUP POSSIBLE IFF GOVT FAILS TO PERFORM [Pak State deemed broadly NOT at risk as long as PAK ARMY/ARMED FORCES stays INTACT = COHESIVE]; + INDIA FEARS NUCLEAR WEAPONS FALLING INTO HANDS OF TERRORISTS [UNO, NPT, Internat failure to control nuctech proliferation]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-04-29 22:28 |
| #2 Yes. John. That worked well.* * Depending on your definition of "well". And "worked". |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2009-04-29 09:17 |
| #1 Wow ... that Mighty Pak Army is really something... they can teach the Indians, the British, the Israelis, the Americans all about counterinsurgency. They cleared Lower Dir of insurgents in ONE DAY. Why, they ought to be in Iraq, and Indian Kashmir /sarc off |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-04-29 06:54 |