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India-Pakistan
Pakistan Starts ’Last Phase’ of anti-Militants Offensive
2016-02-26
[ALMANAR.LB] Pakistain's powerful military chief has ordered his troops to begin the "last phase" of a bloody operation targeting forces of Evil in the restive northwest along the Afghan border, the army said.
The Haqqani Network seems to have come through the experience intact. I wonder why that is.
General Raheel Sharif
..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all....
gave the order during a visit to forward troops carrying out the offensive in North Wazoo, in which the army says it has killed thousands of forces of Evil since it began in June, 2014.

"General Raheel Sharif directed to commence forthwith the last phase of operation in North Waziristan which aims at clearing the remnants of snuffies from their hideouts in deeply forested ravines, isolate them and indiscriminately sever their links with their abettors anywhere across the country," the army said in a statement late Wednesday.

A later tweet from a military front man said the operation "has begun", though the army offered no further details.

The army launched Operation Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
under US pressure in 2014 in a bid to wipe out bad boy bases in the North Waziristan tribal area and bring an end to the near decade-long insurgency that has cost Pakistain thousands of lives.

The operation was intensified after the Taliban massacred more than 150 people, the majority of them children, at a school in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
in December 2014.
Posted by:Fred

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