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| Over 70 militants attack Pakistani security post, 17 dead |
| 2011-05-18 |
| More than 70 militants armed with rockets and mortars attacked a security post on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday. Two members of the security forces and at least 15 insurgents were killed in a four-hour gunbattle that erupted following two successive attacks on the security post set up to defend Peshawar, the gateway to the troubled northwest region. "They were well-armed. They had heavy weapons, rockets, mortars everything. The fighting lasted for about four and a half hours," Ejaz Khan, a city police officer, said. The attack took place near Khyber, part of Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border, which is regarded as a global hub of militants, including al Qaeda and the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban movements. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #4 DO NOT LET ANY OF THEM MOVE TO BANGLADESH. Given the fun the Bangladeshis are having with the Pakistan-lovers who acted out in 1971, letting any Pakistanis go east would be sending them straight to the gallows. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-05-18 23:05 |
| #3 #1 Which country has more jihadis/radicals/extremist Pakistan or Afganistan? Thats the country we should be fighting! Posted by: Unump Bonaparte8194 2011-05-18 16:29 The problem is several tribes live on both sides of the border. They not only fight among themselves, they fight everybody else, too. The only viable solution would be to rip Pakistan apart, give the part on the east bank of the Indus River to India, and give the side on the left bank of the river to Afghanistan. Force half the residents of Pakistan to move to another Muslim country, preferably one in North Africa or to Indonesia. Give the Indians carte blanche to break heads wherever and whenever they think it's necessary to control the remainder. DO NOT LET ANY OF THEM MOVE TO BANGLADESH. The Baluchis will give the Pashtuns so much trouble neither side will be able to concentrate on anyone else, and the Hindus will actually overrun and out-produce the Punjabis and Sindhis left behind. The rest of Afghanistan can modernize, Afghanistan will have access to the Arabian Sea, and the mineral wealth of the enlarged country will provide a decent standard of living for everyone. Modern agricultural methods and decent flood control will gradually win over the remaining muslims, but it'll take a hundred years or so. In the meantime, Uncle Sugar can reduce foreign aid, withdraw its army, and reduce the hemorrhaging the current situation is causing. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2011-05-18 17:20 |
| #2 I'm tempted to call this green-on-green violence, given that they agree on basic ideological and religious issues. I wonder if it's Pashtuns whaling on their Punjabi overlords. Or essentially a power struggle between like-minded factions. Or both. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-05-18 16:50 |
| #1 Which country has more jihadis/radicals/extremist Pakistan or Afganistan? Thats the country we should be fighting! |
| Posted by: Unump Bonaparte8194 2011-05-18 16:29 |