23 terrorists killed due to Air Strikes in Khyber Agency

[Zarvan]

 

[I <3 PAK ARMY]

PAF rocks

 

[shah1398]

Tirah is about to get difficult to move in/out easily as winter is setting in with mountains covered in snow. These low life would try their best to find some hole in downhill areas. PAF is not missing any chance of striking such worms.

 

[Maarkhoor]

RIH (rest In Hell) to terrorists, Good job PAF
We should use napalm bombs against them to taste hell before death, Do we have napalm bombs ?

 

[Counterpunch]

As per my understanding Khyber Agency was cleared from miscreants after a massive operation. So, if there are still large pockets of terrorists dug in then that is not a good sign. I will be happy to know that the ones who were killed were trying to flee or even trying to enter back

 

[haviZsultan]

Despite this news Khyber is the most safe and also the most literate agency in the tribal areas. People there have rejected terrorism. However parts of the Tirah valley are under Mangal Bagh control with some TTP presence. Mostly better than other agencies. Bangash and Turi areas also peaceful by the way (Momand)

 

[Wanderlust]

Pakistan Zindabad

 

[Green Angel]

Well done .......

 

[Solomon2]

Are reporters allowed in this area without being approved by the Pakmil first?

 

[Providence]

Are reporters allowed in this area without being approved by the Pakmil first?

I don't think there's a scope of investigative journalism there. We see most reports from the ISPR releases. Some pak member can confirm it though.

 

[salarsikander]

Are reporters allowed in this area without being approved by the Pakmil first?

Hi,
At least reporters are not shot dead on sight or activists being run over by a bulldozers

 

[Bratva]

As per my understanding Khyber Agency was cleared from miscreants after a massive operation. So, if there are still large pockets of terrorists dug in then that is not a good sign. I will be happy to know that the ones who were killed were trying to flee or even trying to enter back

The principal threat in the Tirah region came from the TTP; the Mangal Bagh-led Lashkar-i-Islam; a breakaway TTP faction, the Jamaatul Ahrar; and sundry foreign militants.

That the military, with its superior power, would eventually prevail over the militants in terms of reclaiming the Tirah region was always clear.

However, there has been a high cost, not least in terms of the more than 50 dead soldiers and over 100 injured.

Yet, with the army chief in North Waziristan yesterday and the military preparing for what is expected to be one of the toughest fights there in the Shawal region, loss of life in military operations is the high price the country sadly must pay for the state to once again reassert its control in the militancy-hit regions.

It should be noted that Operation Khyber-II has not resulted in actual physical control by the military of all three passes from Tirah into Afghanistan — though the unreclaimed valleys of one of the three passes can, according to the military, be controlled by aerial firepower because the military now occupies the peaks over them.

This means two things. One, Operation Khyber-II may require another phase for the total recapture of Tirah. Two, the military may apparently be forced into the continued use of air strikes in the Rajgal and Kachkol valleys to prevent the movement of militants until winter.

At that point, with the onset of the cold season, a new challenge will emerge if the valleys have not been taken over by the military by then — ensuring a military presence in tough and inhospitable terrain while simultaneously guarding against hardened militants slipping in under the cover of extreme temperatures.

Vital as it has been to reclaim the Tirah region, it was clearly left to the last because of the challenge it posed, unlike the Bara plains which were relatively easier to secure in Khyber-I.

From this point onwards, the post-operation challenge is a familiar one: the military can hold and secure terrain, but it will only ever return to some semblance of long-term normality if the civil administration is allowed to function — and if the civilians show some ownership of the project.

Administrative control of the Tirah tehsil has traditionally been done from Bara, a situation that must change if Tirah is to be stabilised.

End of Khyber-II - Newspaper - DAWN.COM

Are reporters allowed in this area without being approved by the Pakmil first?

Give me one example where American military allowed reporters in battlefield without their approval first ?

 

[xperia]

good shot