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India-Pakistan
North Waziristan offensive "not full-scale operation"
2014-05-25
[DAWN] Pakistain has not decided to launch a full-scale military operation in North Wazoo, the Interior Ministry said Saturday, adding that recent Arclight airstrikes and limited military action in the tribal region are in continuation of existing policy.

"No decision has been taken for a full scale military operation in North Waziristan and there was no decision to call off the dialogue process, nor has any such demand been made from either side," Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said in an official statement issued in Islamabad.

The statement said the recent Arclight airstrikes are in continuation of the already taken decision that any act of violence or terrorism against civilian or military targets will meet a calibrated and measured response.

The interior minister also claimed that there was no decision to hand over security of major urban cities to the army.

"No decision has been taken to hand over the security of Islamabad and other major cities to the army nor is NACTA involved in this matter in any manner," said the interior minister.

Security forces security forces have pounded krazed killer hideouts in different parts of North Waziristan during the past couple of days, stepping up pressure on faceless myrmidons in the tribal region.

The 'operation' began a day after military planes and helicopter gunships attacked suspected krazed killers' hideouts in Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
and Mirali sub-district.

Officials put the corpse count at 71 which, they say, include local and foreign krazed killers. Residents, however, put the casualty figure at 80, including women and kiddies.
Posted by:Fred

#1  I have read that the Pak's are responding to Chinese pressure to suppress Chinese Islamic terrorists (Turkic Uighurs from northwest China) that are based in Pakistan. The recent ground attacks and airstrikes were against these "bad Taliban". I find the semantics difficult because in my book the only non-bad Taliban is a dead Taliban. Oh well, every little bit helps.

I have also read that the Pak military has had enough of talking with the Taliban and has told the PM that the gloves are coming off whether he wants them to or not.
Posted by: Squinty   2014-05-25 17:16  

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