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RAWALPINDI: An operation has been launched along Pak-Afghan border to reinforce troops’ deployment in Rajgal valley, to effectively check and guard against terrorists‘movement along high mountains and all weather passes in Khyber Agency, the Interior Services Public Relations (ISPR) reported on Tuesday morning.
ISPR posted on social media regarding the latest operation, “An Operation has been launched along Pak-Afghan border to reinforce troops deployment in Rajgal valley to effectively check and guard against terrorists movement along high mountains and all weather passes in Khyber Agency.”
In the operation by the Pakistan Army in Rajgal valley, 5 hideouts have been destroyed and numerous terrorists have been killed in airstrikes. There are still unverified reports on the number of deaths. Pakistan AirForce is taking part in the operation and carrying out the strikes in the area.
The objective is to check infiltration of terrorists from Afghanistan in the Khyber Agency, as well as to prevent the terrorists from crossing the Durand Line after their activities in Pakistan.
Sources said, the operation and deployment of additional troops over the mountain top and in the Darra would effectively check the movement of terrorists.
Khyber Agency and North Waziristan are among Pakistan’s seven semi-autonomous tribal districts near the Afghan border, rife with homegrown insurgents and foreign militants.
These areas have also been considered home to extremist organisations, including Al Qaeda and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Military operations Zarb-e-Azb and the National Action Plan were launched in the area against insurgents following attacks on Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport and Peshawar’s Army Public School in 2014.
The number of terrorist attacks in Pakistan has fallen around 70 percent this year, due to the combination of the military offensive against Taliban bases along the Afghan border and government initiatives to tackle militancy.
http://nation.com.pk/national/16-Au...lled-in-latest-operation-on-pak-afghan-border
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Army conducts operation along Pak-Afghan border in Khyber Agency
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army conducted an operation along the Pak-Afghan border in Rajgal valley on Tuesday, the military's media wing said.
An Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said the operation was launched "to reinforce troop deployment in Rajgal valley to effectively check and guard against" movement across the porous border in Khyber Agency.
The operation targeted "movement on high mountains and all-weather passes in Khyber Agency," the statement said.
ISPR chief Lt Gen Asim Bajwa claimed "nine terrorist hideouts were destroyed through aerial strikes".
This claim, however, could not be independently verified as journalists do not have access to most parts of the restive agency.
Rajgal valley is located in northern Tirah in Khyber Agency.
Despite heavy military presence on both sides of the border, cross-border movements of militants (in both ways) have been a major area of concern. Investigation into the Bacha Khan University Attack in January established that the mastermind, planners and handlers had used Afghan soil and telecommunication network for executing the deadly strike.
The government has been under persistent pressure from the military to accelerate the steps that were required for an effective execution of its counterterrorism strategy ─ known as the National Action Plan (NAP), a policy agreed by consensus by all political parties after the December 2014 Army Public School tragedy.
Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif in a statement released by the ISPR on Friday warned that lack of progress on NAP was affecting the consolidation phase of Operation Zarb-i-Azb.
Earlier this month, Pakistan opened a gate at Torkham, one of the busiest crossing points between the two countries and used by 15,000-20,000 people and hundreds of vehicles daily.
Clashes between Pakistani and Afghan security forces over the construction of the border gate left four soldiers dead on both sides, including Frontier Corp’s Major Ali Jawad Changezi.
Work on the construction of the gate and allied facilities began in 2014, but Afghan reservations over border regulation kept causing delays.
Further south in Balochistan, Pakistan also completed a 500-kilometre long trench along the porous border to stop the movement of smugglers, militants and other anti-social elements.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1277904
ISPR posted on social media regarding the latest operation, “An Operation has been launched along Pak-Afghan border to reinforce troops deployment in Rajgal valley to effectively check and guard against terrorists movement along high mountains and all weather passes in Khyber Agency.”
In the operation by the Pakistan Army in Rajgal valley, 5 hideouts have been destroyed and numerous terrorists have been killed in airstrikes. There are still unverified reports on the number of deaths. Pakistan AirForce is taking part in the operation and carrying out the strikes in the area.
The objective is to check infiltration of terrorists from Afghanistan in the Khyber Agency, as well as to prevent the terrorists from crossing the Durand Line after their activities in Pakistan.
Sources said, the operation and deployment of additional troops over the mountain top and in the Darra would effectively check the movement of terrorists.
Khyber Agency and North Waziristan are among Pakistan’s seven semi-autonomous tribal districts near the Afghan border, rife with homegrown insurgents and foreign militants.
These areas have also been considered home to extremist organisations, including Al Qaeda and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Military operations Zarb-e-Azb and the National Action Plan were launched in the area against insurgents following attacks on Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport and Peshawar’s Army Public School in 2014.
The number of terrorist attacks in Pakistan has fallen around 70 percent this year, due to the combination of the military offensive against Taliban bases along the Afghan border and government initiatives to tackle militancy.
http://nation.com.pk/national/16-Au...lled-in-latest-operation-on-pak-afghan-border
ANOTHER LINK
Army conducts operation along Pak-Afghan border in Khyber Agency
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army conducted an operation along the Pak-Afghan border in Rajgal valley on Tuesday, the military's media wing said.
An Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said the operation was launched "to reinforce troop deployment in Rajgal valley to effectively check and guard against" movement across the porous border in Khyber Agency.
The operation targeted "movement on high mountains and all-weather passes in Khyber Agency," the statement said.
ISPR chief Lt Gen Asim Bajwa claimed "nine terrorist hideouts were destroyed through aerial strikes".
This claim, however, could not be independently verified as journalists do not have access to most parts of the restive agency.
Rajgal valley is located in northern Tirah in Khyber Agency.
Despite heavy military presence on both sides of the border, cross-border movements of militants (in both ways) have been a major area of concern. Investigation into the Bacha Khan University Attack in January established that the mastermind, planners and handlers had used Afghan soil and telecommunication network for executing the deadly strike.
The government has been under persistent pressure from the military to accelerate the steps that were required for an effective execution of its counterterrorism strategy ─ known as the National Action Plan (NAP), a policy agreed by consensus by all political parties after the December 2014 Army Public School tragedy.
Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif in a statement released by the ISPR on Friday warned that lack of progress on NAP was affecting the consolidation phase of Operation Zarb-i-Azb.
Earlier this month, Pakistan opened a gate at Torkham, one of the busiest crossing points between the two countries and used by 15,000-20,000 people and hundreds of vehicles daily.
Clashes between Pakistani and Afghan security forces over the construction of the border gate left four soldiers dead on both sides, including Frontier Corp’s Major Ali Jawad Changezi.
Work on the construction of the gate and allied facilities began in 2014, but Afghan reservations over border regulation kept causing delays.
Further south in Balochistan, Pakistan also completed a 500-kilometre long trench along the porous border to stop the movement of smugglers, militants and other anti-social elements.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1277904
