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Dear RescueRanger: You are right. Taliban have to make best use of terrain masking as they do not have the logistics pipeline available to Vietcong from USSR and China. Yet, regardless of terrain or logistics, insurgencies thrive on the support by population. There is a general sense of...

Dear S-2: Wisconsin has some of the friendliest people. The people of Swat too have the same simple honest hospitable demeanor. The people of Swat too have a big heart, just like the people of Oshkosh. The sights, sounds and scenery too is similar; except that Swat is more vertical than flat...

AgNoStIc MuSliM: There is a saying of Hazrat Ali Karam-allah Wajh "Iflas (Poverty) is half of Kufr". I thought this applied to individuals only. Now I realize this applies to nations too.

Voww!! Great Reimbursement! By the way how much did we spend during the Invoice period. How much deduction was made out of Invoice? What were the Line items in the Invoice? When is the next Invoice due? This is probably the cheapest war ever waged in the last 50 years.

Dear S-2: Come on, these guys are just Ham operators and practicing their skills as members of the Radio Relay League.

Dear RescueRanger: If insurgencies were dependent on terrain cover alone, there would have been no war in Vietnam. Please look at the topography of Mekong delta, which is mostly about 30 ft AMSL. Whenever national Army is used against its own citizens there is a cascading effect. Garrisons or...

Can this story be confirmed by an Independent source?

Thats a lot of BS. During Taleban rule in Afghanistan a clip was shown on western media where a Taliban official in Kabul was hitting a woman with a stick on her hips. In 2002 after the collapse of Taliban it turned out that the clip was shot by RAWA NGO at a refugee camp in Bostan near Quetta...

All-Green: First of all hats off to your honorable father, who participated in Afghan Jihad indirectly (when it was the real Jihad). I call TTP poisonous weeds with a certain degree of pain. They are per se a reactionary force, but they do have the wherewithal to stand against extreme...

Cheetah786: Call them “Terrorists” if you wish, that’s probably a more respectable word. The French National anthem’s punch line is a praise for terrorism. George Washington, Charles de Gualle, Mao Tse Tung, Lenin were all “terrorists” at a certain point in...

“”here is the govt's plan. they feel that the militants have been mostly driven out of bajaur and mohmand districts towards swat as they cannot flee across the border due to snow and the awaiting Nato/ISAF/US/Afghan forces. (some may still evade and cross-over). anyway once pushed...

Ratus Ratus: “Gold Standard” means a Standard, not necessarily NATO membership. Israel, Australia, Japan, Korea are not members of NATO but are treated at par, or sometimes better. Comparison to ARVN circa 1973 is absolutely valid. As a Pakistani I feel the pain and indignation...

AgNoStIc MuSliM: The core judicial processes under Shariah laws are substantially the same for all the sects and sub-sects of Islam. Overwhelming majority of people in Swat / Bajaur are Ahle Sunnah. There are minor variations of interpretation in Fiqah Jaafriah that must always be respected...

1. The War is costing Pakistan about US$ 10 b / year. 2. The US should have paid more than US$ 20 b / year; comprising of US$ 10 b as actual cost and US$ 10 b as price of our national dignity. 3. Instead Gen Musharraf and later our present Political / Military leaders settled for petty...

Its unfortunate for the Army and people of Pakistan that our Army is deployed against its own citizens on its own soil. This is a criminal misuse of our national asset, just to keep the USA in good humor, and to prevent it from threatening us. It is cynical to gloat over the...

“Debacle in Swat” by Kamila Hyat is a just a bunch of incoherent generalities. Cheap sensationalism at its worst. She apparently did not bother to do even the basic research to verify facts on the ground. Pak Army has not suffered a debacle or defeat at the hands of lose bands of...

Dear enigma947: Taliban do follow a simplistic interpretation of Islam, which works well with majority of the exploited and deprived population of Pakistan. In their own little minds they are sincerely trying to perform “good deeds” by cracking down on vice, drugs, crime; and the...

“” An ISPR spokesman told The News the military has recently begun to implement the new strategy, which would focus more on consolidating and securing the main supply routes and urban and rural centres by putting more boots on the ground.”” There is nothing new...

"" On way to the check-post, security forces bulldozed 24 houses and torched 50 others on roadsides in Sandokhel, Amrai Koroona, Kamalkhel Koroona and Habibzai areas. It may be mentioned here that earlier security forces had destroyed 48 houses of the suspected militants."" Burning houses...

Dear All-Green: TTP is not really an object of love, admiration or positive energy. When you sow poisonous weeds, don’t expect to reap mangoes or apricots. The rise of TTP in FATA / Swat (and now some settled areas) is mainly attributable to the ill conceived, US dictated, Army...