Operation Rah-e-Nijat (South Waziristan)

[TaimiKhan]

can anyone tell me where i can see pics from operation rah-e-nijat?

http://www.defence.pk/forums/milita...ation-south-waziristan-military-pictures.html

 

[fatman17]

Order of Battle: Pakistani Military in FATA and Northwest Frontier Province

By Chris Harnisch, Charlie Szrom, Ashley Lohmann

August 15, 2009


Following is an order of battle for the Pakistani military, or a chart showing the command structure, unit responsibilities, and unit locations for different segments of the military. This document only lists officers, units, and bases which could be confirmed using open source material and as such does not represent an exhaustive list.



Forces deployed in current conflict in NWFP and FATA, see below for detailed order of battle:

37th Mechanized Infantry Division, I Corps – Swat (based out of Gujranwala)

19th Infantry Division, X Corps – northern Swat (based out of Jhelum)

7th Infantry Division, XI Corps – North Waziristan (based out of Mardan)

9th Infantry Division, XI Corps – South Waziristan (based out of Kohat)

All Frontier Corps and Frontier Constabulary units in NWFP, FATA and Baluchistan, based in theaters of operations.

Paramilitary Forces:[67]

Frontier Corps (FC)[68]

FC in NWFP[69] – Peshawar[70] (Maj. Gen. Tariq Khan[71]); Responsible for the Afghan border and the FATA[72]

Bajaur Scouts – Khar, Bajaur Agency[73] (Col. Nauman Saeed[74])

Chitral Scouts[75] – (Col. Suhail Iqbal[76])

Dir Scouts[77] – Balambat, Dir Agency[78]

Khushal (Khan) Scouts[79]

Khyber Rifles – Landi Kotal, Khyber Agency[80] (Col. Qaiser Alam[81])

Kurram Militia – (Col. Qazi Riaz[82])

Mahsud Scouts[83] – (Col. Mujahid Hussain[84])

Mohmand Rifles – (Col. Saif Ullah[85])

Orakzai Scouts[86]

Shawal Rifles[87]

South Waziristan Scouts – Wana, South Waziristan Agency[88]

Bases:

Jandola[89]

Manzai[90]

Sararogha[91]

Seplatoi[92]

Serwakai[93]

Tanai[94]

Tiarza[95]

Zalai[96]

Zam Chan[97]

Swat Scouts[98]

Thall Scouts[99]

Tochi Scouts – Miramshah, North Waziristan Agency[100]

FC in Baluchistan[101] – Quetta (Maj. Gen. Salim Nawaz[102]); Responsible for the Baluchistan border[103]

Bhambore Rifles[104]

Chagai Militia – Noshki[105]

Ghazaband Scouts – Quetta[106] (Col. Shahzad[107])

Kalat Scouts – Kalat[108]

Kharan Rifles – (Col. Naveed Akhtar[109])

Loralai Scouts[110]

Maiwand Rifles[111]

Makran Scouts[112]

Pishin Scouts – Chaman[113] (Col. Javid Iqbal[114])

Sibi Scouts[115]

Zhob Militia[116]

Frontier Constabulary[125] – Peshawar (Commandant Zafarullah Khan[126]); Responsible for the border between FATA and NWFP[127]

Baluchistan Constabulary[128]

Levies and Khassadars – Responsible for policing the tribal areas of NWFP[129]


Appendix II – Military Bases in NWFP and FATA[196]

Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP)

Abbottabad District

Abbottabad

Center, Baloch Regiment

Center, Frontier Force Regiment

Kakul

Pakistan Military Academy


Dera Ismail Khan District

Dera Ismail Khan

HQ, Military Police Corps

Kohat District

Kohat

HQ, 9 Infantry Division (XI Corps)

HQ, Corps of Signals[197]

Satellite Airbase, PAF[198]

Garrison Cadet College (PAF)[199]

Cadet College Kohat (PAF)[200]

Nowshera District

Cherat

HQ, SSG

Nowshera

HQ, Armored Corps

HQ, Corps of Artillery

HQ, Service Corps

Army School of Armor and Mechanized Warfare

Risalpur

HQ, Corps of Engineers[201]

Military College of Engineering

Mardan District

Mardan

HQ, 7 Infantry Division (XI Corps)

Center, Punjab Regiment

Army School of Artillery[202]

Peshawar District

Peshawar

HQ, XI Corps

HQ, 9 Squadron (Army Aviation Corps)

HQ, FC NWFP

HQ, Frontier Constabulary[203]

HQ, Northern Air Command (PAF)[204]

HQ, No. 36 Wing (PAF Northern)[205]

SSG Airborne School

Swat District

Saidu Sharif

HQ, Brigade[206]

Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)

Bajaur Agency

Khar

HQ, Bajaur Scouts (FC NWFP)[207]

Dir Agency

Balambat

HQ, Dir Scouts (FC NWFP)[208]

Tor Ghundi

Base, Dir Scouts (FC NWFP)[209]

Khyber Agency

Bara

Base, Mahsud Scouts (FC NWFP)[210]

Landi Kotal

HQ, Khyber Rifles (FC NWFP)[211]

Meelwat

Base, Khyber Rifles (FC NWFP)[212]


Milward

Base, Mahsud Scouts (FC NWFP)[213]

Salope

Base, Khyber Rifles (FC NWFP)[214]

Base, Mahsud Scouts (FC NWFP)[215]

Shagai

Base, Khyber Rifles (FC NWFP)[216]

Mohmand Agency

Tor Ghundi

Base, Dir Scouts (FC NWFP)[217]

North Waziristan Agency

Dosali

Base, Shawal Rifles (FC NWFP)[218]

Mir Ali

Base, Tochi Scouts (FC NWFP)[219]

Scouts Training Academy (FC NWFP)[220]

Miramshah

HQ, Tochi Scouts (FC NWFP)[221]

Base, Army[222]

Razmak

Base, Army[223]

Spinwam

Base, Thall Scouts (FC NWFP)[224]

South Waziristan Agency

Jandola

Base, South Waziristan Scouts (FC NWFP)[225]

Manzai

Base, South Waziristan Scouts (FC NWFP)[226]

Sararogha

Base, South Waziristan Scouts (FC NWFP)[227]

Seplatoi

Base, South Waziristan Scouts (FC NWFP)[228]

Serwakai

Base, South Waziristan Scouts (FC NWFP)[229]

Tanai

Base, South Waziristan Scouts (FC NWFP)[230]

Tiarza

Base, South Waziristan Scouts (FC NWFP)[231]

Wana

HQ, South Waziristan Scouts (FC NWFP)[232]

Base, Army[233]

Zalai

Base, South Waziristan Scouts (FC NWFP)[234]

Zam Chan

Base, South Waziristan Scouts (FC NWFP)[235]

Zarai Noor Colony

HQ, Brigade[236]

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[EjazR]

The problem is that once the know-how is available for making explosives using ammonium nitrates then its impossible to eliminate this unless the people with know how are targeted. Why because this is basically fertilisers. Pakistan having a large agragarian base has fertilers all over the country and hence the raw materials are easily available and practically unlimited.

 

[TalibanSwatter]

Our Foe's Failures
Irfan Hussain

IMAGINE a world where 9/11 did not happen. In such a scenario, the Taliban would probably have all of Afghanistan by the jugular, having overrun the country and defeated the Northern Alliance years ago.

Having achieved total victory, it is highly unlikely that Mullah Omar and his followers would take their orders from their Pakistani handlers. As it is, when the whole world tried to prevent the tragic destruction of the giant Buddha statues at Bamiyan, nobody – including Gen Musharraf and the ISI – could prevail upon the mediaeval rulers next door to halt this wicked act.

In fact, it was this single stroke of vicious vandalism that opened the world’s eyes to the reality of the Taliban mindset. Earlier, they had been just another benighted mob of holy warriors persecuting their own people; now they were viewed with more than distaste. This revulsion ensured that when they were kicked out of Kabul by the Northern Alliance supported by American Special Forces, few tears were shed.

Luckily for the rest of us, neither the leaders of Al Qaeda nor the Taliban appear to have studied military history or psychology. While the former numbers engineers and doctors among its ranks, it does not seem to have recruited social scientists. Over the centuries, a vast number of treatises on the theory and practice of asymmetrical warfare have been written. From Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, to T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, many theorists and military leaders have dwelt upon the lessons weaker forces have learned about fighting and defeating larger armies.

One major lesson is that the commander of the smaller force does not deliberately alienate the population whose support is crucial to success. The masses are ‘the sea guerrillas swim in’. Apart from providing recruits, ordinary people shelter and feed the insurgents. In Pakistan and Afghanistan, jihadi groups have become arrogant through their success, and now terrorise locals into submission.

Had the Taliban tried to create a genuinely egalitarian state in Afghanistan, they would have acted as a powerful magnet for extremists. As it was, they put off many by their brutal treatment of women, and by their stone-age punishments for the smallest infringement of their medieval laws. And by allowing their Al Qaeda guests to plot the 9/11 attacks on their soil – and later refusing to hand them over to the Americans – the Taliban ensured the end of their rule.

Mullah Fazlullah and his cohorts blew a similar opportunity in Swat. Once they had been handed the valley through irresponsible deals, these clerics and their armed band of thugs had a great chance to build a model Islamic state. But they overreached themselves, finally alerting the government and the army to the real and immediate threat they posed. And during their fleeting grip on power, they carried out a reign of terror that thoroughly disgusted the rest of the country. Never again will the people of Swat demand instant ‘Islamic’ justice.

Revolutionaries need to convince people that their vision would lead to a more just order and a better life for them. But utopias are easier to conceive on paper than implement in practice. An absence of economists and managers, combined with a clerical hierarchy ignorant of the complex nature of the modern world, made it impossible for the Taliban to establish and run a functioning government. Their ‘emirate’ was dysfunctional and chaotic, focusing only on flogging and executing their unfortunate citizens. Maulana Fazlullah’s thugs went around torturing and decapitating their victims at will.

Given the large number of Pakistanis who continue to believe that a truly Islamic dispensation will solve all our many problems, the Taliban had an excellent opportunity to win them over. As we saw on our television sets, many supposedly educated and loud-mouthed anchors and panellists have held forth at length about the virtues of theocratic rule. They have argued at interminable length about the need to engage these extremists and offer them deals.

Luckily for the rest of us, these ignorant jihadis did not take advantage of this support, and have done everything to turn this large section of the chattering classes against them. The recent suicide bombing of the Islamic University in Islamabad is a case in point. Here were students who would have normally supported an Islamic order, but instead of courting them, the Taliban sent a suicide bomber to blow up several of these young idealists.

Another key potential ally and erstwhile benefactor is the section of the military establishment that is known to have long supported the jihadis for their own ends. Even after 9/11 and Musharraf’s famous U-turn, some elements of our intelligence agencies continued their covert support to the Taliban. But now, by deliberately targeting and humiliating the military, these short-sighted jihadis have sown the seeds of their own destruction.

In Sri Lanka’s recently concluded civil war, we saw that even a highly motivated and well-armed irregular group like the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam does not stand a chance against a modern army. There is no way the Taliban can hope to win a conventional battle against the Pakistan Army, backed as it is by air power. Their only chance is to engage in guerrilla warfare that neutralises the army’s natural advantage of numbers and organisation. But for a successful campaign, they need the support of the people.

As the controversial drone campaign has demonstrated, there are many in the tribal areas who betray the terrorists sheltering in their midst. These informers pinpoint targets to the Americans who then send their Predators to hunt them down. Had the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies not antagonised their hosts, many of them might still have been alive.

Another element of support for fundamentalists were the shopkeepers and small businessmen who have been contributing to the coffers of the many jihadi outfits that have proliferated in Pakistan over the years. By causing mayhem in crowded bazaars across Pakistan with their relentless suicide bombing campaign, the Taliban and their ilk have created a crisis for the country’s commercial interests.

So in one way or another, the jihadis have alienated most of the segments of the population who might have backed them. Even Islamic parties are now careful of voicing their support. Although the Jihadis may appear invincible, they are on the run. Our political parties and the army must stay united in routing them. They are the real threat; everything else is secondary.

 

[TaimiKhan]

37th Mechanized Infantry Division, I Corps – Swat (based out of Gujranwala)

7th Infantry Division, XI Corps – North Waziristan (based out of Mardan)

Excellent info except for some.

No mechanized division is based in Swat, just a couple of mechanized units with limited assets had been sent.

Well if 7th Div is based in Mardan, how come I have to daily pass infront of the 7th Div - Golden Arrows HQ in Peshawar

And in SW operation atleast 2 divisions are employed, brought from somewhere else.

Westerners reporting by sitting in west can be expected to have glitches, same when they print rubbish facts about Pakistan having no link to reality.

 

[TaimiKhan]

KOHAT: At least seven militants were killed and an ammunition depot was destroyed as jets pounded hideouts of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Lower Orakzai Agency on Saturday.

Huge quantity of ammunition and food dumped in the houses occupied from the Sikh community was also destroyed in the air strikes made in Sultanzai, Feroze Khel and Bezote areas in Lower Orakzai Agency. Five militants were also injured in the attack.

Similarly the jets destroyed the ammunition depot and food store established in the empty house of the Sikh leader Gulab Singh. The Sikh family had left the area after the TTP had imposed Jazia on them and upon their refusal to submit, had occupied their houses and shops.

 

[air marshal]

Seven terrorists killed in Operation Rah-e-Nijat: ISPR

ISLAMABAD, Nov 14 (APP): As many as seven terrorist were killed and four soldiers were injured during the last 24 hours of Operation Rah-e-Nijat in South Waziristan.According to an ISPR press release, on Jandola - Sararogha Axis, security forces cleared area around Madike located two kilometers north east of Ahmed Wam and also secured important height point 1663 at Parmonkai Roghzai.Three soldiers got injured during encounter with terrorists at Ahmed Wam area.On Shakai-Kaniguram Axis, security forces are consolidating their positions and conducting search operations.

According to ISPR, the important feature of Takrai Sar located one kilometer South of Marobi Raghza and three kilometers Northeast of Ladha has been secured and during clashes, four terrorists were killed.

During search of terrorist commander Dr Nasrullah’s house at Khaisura, lot of propaganda CDs, maps, passports and miscellaneous photos have been recovered. Village Bangle Khel, Sultano, Narakai and Tutai Langar Khel have been completely sanitized after recovery of large quantity of arms and ammunition.

So far as Razma-Makeen Axis is concerned, security forces are securing areas South and East of Makeen and have established contact with forces moving on Ladha - Kaniguram axis.

The important road from Makeen to Lattaka Narai east of Makeen has been secured and during clashes, one soldier got injured while three terrorists have been killed.

In Ghariom - Mir Khoni sector, security forces are consolidating their positions and advancing further and six IEDs were defused during clearance operation.

In Operation Rah-e-Rast in Swat - Malakand, security forces apprehended four suspects at Goranai and Tiligram and two terrorists voluntarily surrendered to security forces at Bodigram and Kabbal.

So far as relief activities are concerned, 11,293 Cash Cards have been issued to displaced families of Waziristan.

 

[nightrider_saulat]

http://www.defence.pk/forums/milita...ation-south-waziristan-military-pictures.html

thank you sir!

 

[air marshal]

 

[air marshal]

 

[Barrett]

Marriot figure was around 600KG-700KG.

RDX, TNT, C4 all these come from across the border, what these guys do is that they use it with some solution made locally or change the composition of these explosives to give greater power and use then military ammunition with it too, to give it more destructive power.

When you say across the border where exactly are you pointing? if i am not wrong it"s the engineer corps that deals with explosives and we have some friendly division of Engineer Corps in paktika
Thanks for the useful information

i would really hope that the SOURCE of these explosives are targetted and this is given priority one.

The problem is that making explosives is easy; anybody who knows chemistry can concoct them. But more should be done to control the sourcing.

the explosives used in Marriot blast were extremely high grade. Over 1000 kg. And the bomb-maker used aluminum nitrate powder --which basically sent scorching "shards" of fire through the windows of the hotel and caused it to burn violently the way it did

I second you on that we need to control the sourcing as most of the chemicals used can be purchased from markets in almost all of the cities without proper checks
It is about time it should be taken under serious consideration

 

[TaimiKhan]

No 485/2009-ISPR Dated: November 15, 2009
Rawalpindi - November 15, 2009:



1. South Waziristan - Operation Rah-e-Nijat. In last 24 hours, 5 terrorists have been killed. Details of the operations are as follows:-

a. On Jandola – Sararogha Axis. Security forces conducted search operation at Ahmed Wam and cleared Shahvzai, Khaznikai, Udin Sar, during clearance operation, exchange of fire took place with terrorists, resultantly 5 terrorists were killed.

b. On Shakai – Kaniguram Axis. Security forces conducted search operation around Tiarza and recovered cache of arms and ammunition.

c. On Razmak- Makeen Axis

(1) Security forces established check post at Shah Wali Alghad.

(2) Route to Laddah Bridge has been cleared from all obstacles; during the process of route scanning 4 IEDs were neutralized. Security forces also recovered large quantity of arms and ammunition.

(3) Security forces completed concentration around Tauda China and searched 25 houses in village at Kam Narakai during the process 3 IED were also diffused.

(4) Terrorists fired few rockets from southern direction of village of Wouchaba which was effectively responded.

2. Swat – Malakand – Operation Rah-e-Rast

a. Security forces conducted search operation at Karakar Banda, Ilam Saand, Ashar Banr, Gari Shamozai and killed 12 terrorists, while apprehended 2 suspects at Shalpin.

a. 7 terrorists voluntarily surrendered to security forces at Charbagh, Roria, Zara Khela.

3. Relief Activities 11,533 Cash Cards have issued to displaced families of Waziristan.

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[TaimiKhan]

Taliban guerrillas bring ‘Iraq tactics’ to Pakistan
Sunday, 15 Nov, 2009


ISLAMABAD: Suicide attacks, car bombings, shootings in the capital and fighting in the mountains — Taliban guerrillas are dragging Pakistan into a war deadlier than in Afghanistan and mimicking the carnage of Iraq.

Militant attacks killed at least 320 people in Pakistan last month alone, including 170 civilians slaughtered in market bombings in the northwestern city of Peshawar, according to tallies from police and medics, and the bloodshed has continued in November.

Across the border in Afghanistan, where US President Barack Obama is mulling whether to send thousands of extra troops into battle against the Taliban, attacks were more frequent, but the death toll for October was around 130.

Pakistan is on the frontline of the US war on Al-Qaeda and has been a key ally in the Afghan campaign, but local analysts warn that increased instability in the country of 167 million people could prove more damaging.

‘The danger here is much greater. It's a bigger country, more developed with the nuclear bomb and all that,’ said tribal affairs expert Rahimullah Yusufzai.

‘The previous three or four attacks in markets was a kind of strategy that was being used in Iraq... but it will come at a cost. No guerrilla movement can survive without local support,’ he added.

However, controversial US drone attacks on Pakistani soil have killed not only Al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives, but also civilians, helping to galvanise anti-American fervour.

Pakistan's latest fight against militants — a month-long offensive designed to crush the havens of an estimated 10,000 home-grown Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters — is running into resistance.

Seventeen soldiers died on Thursday in the bloodiest battle to date since Pakistan launched its offensive in the mountainous South Waziristan region on October 17, with 30,000 troops backed by fighter jets and helicopter gunships.

Leading TTP spokesman Azam Tariq said the militia had started a ‘guerrilla war’ in Waziristan and would attack cities to prove ‘we can fight for years’.

‘This strategy can work in Waziristan, in mountain areas, places where the army is stretched out, where the supply lines are going to be long, but the Taliban are not really trained for urban guerrilla warfare,’ said Yusufzai.

‘This cannot succeed in the plains or in the places which are far from their tribal strongholds. So they can't do it in Punjab. They cannot even do it in Peshawar — just suicide bombers and car bombings,’ he said.

Four bomb attacks hit the metropolis last week with an average of two a week since October. Market-place bombings in Peshawar, in outlying towns and the garrison city of Rawalpindi have inflicted huge casualties.

Retired brigadier Mahmood Shah, a former security chief in the tribal belt, reflected growing dissatisfaction with the civilian government, whose unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari has reportedly strained relations with the military.

Shah said parallels with Iraq should not be overplayed but recognised that ‘mass bombings in Pakistan in the last couple of days, in which civilians were targeted, show some similarities’.

‘The political government needs to get out of the paralysis that they are in right now. They don't know how to respond to the situation. We need an integrated policy. People are dying in the hundreds,’ he said.

On Friday, militants bombed Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) northwestern headquarters, leaving much of the building in ruins.

‘We can expect a guerrilla war. After defeat in South Waziristan, their next phase could be to engage the army into a guerrilla warfare,’ said Mutahir Sheikh, head of international relations at the University of Karachi.

But the army has cut off the Waziristan battlefield and it is impossible to gauge first hand what is happening.

The military claims to have captured notorious bastions in some of the most forbidding terrain in the country with lightning speed.

Members of the Mehsud tribe, which dominates the TTP, say the Taliban no longer enjoy support.

‘May be some tribesmen helped them but now, we the Mehsud tribe don't side with the Taliban,’ said tribesman Haji Khan Mohammad Mehsud, 60.

Military intelligence and tribal elders say the Taliban are escaping into the mountains of neighbouring North Waziristan and Orakzai.

‘This is something not new to the war on terror. America marched into Iraq, into Afghanistan. There was little resistance, thinking they'd achieved their objective. Then the war began,’ said defence analyst Ayesha Siddiqa.

DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Taliban guerrillas bring ?Iraq tactics? to Pakistan

 

[waraich66]

Taliban guerrillas bring ‘Iraq tactics’ to Pakistan
Sunday, 15 Nov, 2009


ISLAMABAD: Suicide attacks, car bombings, shootings in the capital and fighting in the mountains — Taliban guerrillas are dragging Pakistan into a war deadlier than in Afghanistan and mimicking the carnage of Iraq.

Militant attacks killed at least 320 people in Pakistan last month alone, including 170 civilians slaughtered in market bombings in the northwestern city of Peshawar, according to tallies from police and medics, and the bloodshed has continued in November.

Across the border in Afghanistan, where US President Barack Obama is mulling whether to send thousands of extra troops into battle against the Taliban, attacks were more frequent, but the death toll for October was around 130.

Pakistan is on the frontline of the US war on Al-Qaeda and has been a key ally in the Afghan campaign, but local analysts warn that increased instability in the country of 167 million people could prove more damaging.

‘The danger here is much greater. It's a bigger country, more developed with the nuclear bomb and all that,’ said tribal affairs expert Rahimullah Yusufzai.

‘The previous three or four attacks in markets was a kind of strategy that was being used in Iraq... but it will come at a cost. No guerrilla movement can survive without local support,’ he added.

However, controversial US drone attacks on Pakistani soil have killed not only Al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives, but also civilians, helping to galvanise anti-American fervour.

Pakistan's latest fight against militants — a month-long offensive designed to crush the havens of an estimated 10,000 home-grown Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters — is running into resistance.

Seventeen soldiers died on Thursday in the bloodiest battle to date since Pakistan launched its offensive in the mountainous South Waziristan region on October 17, with 30,000 troops backed by fighter jets and helicopter gunships.

Leading TTP spokesman Azam Tariq said the militia had started a ‘guerrilla war’ in Waziristan and would attack cities to prove ‘we can fight for years’.

‘This strategy can work in Waziristan, in mountain areas, places where the army is stretched out, where the supply lines are going to be long, but the Taliban are not really trained for urban guerrilla warfare,’ said Yusufzai.

‘This cannot succeed in the plains or in the places which are far from their tribal strongholds. So they can't do it in Punjab. They cannot even do it in Peshawar — just suicide bombers and car bombings,’ he said.

Four bomb attacks hit the metropolis last week with an average of two a week since October. Market-place bombings in Peshawar, in outlying towns and the garrison city of Rawalpindi have inflicted huge casualties.

Retired brigadier Mahmood Shah, a former security chief in the tribal belt, reflected growing dissatisfaction with the civilian government, whose unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari has reportedly strained relations with the military.

Shah said parallels with Iraq should not be overplayed but recognised that ‘mass bombings in Pakistan in the last couple of days, in which civilians were targeted, show some similarities’.

‘The political government needs to get out of the paralysis that they are in right now. They don't know how to respond to the situation. We need an integrated policy. People are dying in the hundreds,’ he said.

On Friday, militants bombed Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) northwestern headquarters, leaving much of the building in ruins.

‘We can expect a guerrilla war. After defeat in South Waziristan, their next phase could be to engage the army into a guerrilla warfare,’ said Mutahir Sheikh, head of international relations at the University of Karachi.

But the army has cut off the Waziristan battlefield and it is impossible to gauge first hand what is happening.

The military claims to have captured notorious bastions in some of the most forbidding terrain in the country with lightning speed.

Members of the Mehsud tribe, which dominates the TTP, say the Taliban no longer enjoy support.

‘May be some tribesmen helped them but now, we the Mehsud tribe don't side with the Taliban,’ said tribesman Haji Khan Mohammad Mehsud, 60.

Military intelligence and tribal elders say the Taliban are escaping into the mountains of neighbouring North Waziristan and Orakzai.

‘This is something not new to the war on terror. America marched into Iraq, into Afghanistan. There was little resistance, thinking they'd achieved their objective. Then the war began,’ said defence analyst Ayesha Siddiqa.

DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Taliban guerrillas bring ?Iraq tactics? to Pakistan

Its mean Al Qaeada is behind their strategy

 

[TaimiKhan]

Its mean Al Qaeada is behind their strategy

AQ is the main factor behind everything. Even the temporary alliance with Afghan Taliban or with Wazir tribe was due to them. They have taken a lot of hit here in Pakistan and internationally too, so now their strategy is to use the local groups in propagating their agenda. they provide the money and brains, while manpower is provided by TTP kind of organizations.