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AJ

The clearing up and consolidation is yet ongoing, and the real effectiveness will be seen 2-3 months down the line ... lets see if the Talibs melt into civillian population.

now come on man. will u ever let me be happy?? let me enjoy the moment and then ill think about tomorrow. Let me celebrate today's success.
btw do u ever celebrate the moment or u keep on waitin for tomorrow which never comes?? :undecided:
 
Ghost town of Pakistan's Swat
By S.H. Khan – 2 hours ago

MINGORA, Pakistan (AFP) — "If anybody wants to see the day of judgment, he should go to Mingora," said Mohammad Daud, a shell-shocked refugee from Pakistan's fierce military onslaught in the capital of Swat valley.

"There is nothing left for people to survive," said Daud, a tailor who scraped by for 20 days on potatoes scavenged from his neighbour's house, as security forces fought Taliban fighters in the mountainous district.

Daud finally fled to Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), but many who remain in Mingora are filled with hatred for the Islamist extremists who have turned the district capital into a ghost town.

Cushioned in the hills, 160 kilometres (100 miles) northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad, the city once bustled with activity, filled with local merchants and tourists who came to relax in the clean, cool mountain air.

Now, it suffers from a Taliban insurgency and Pakistan's third army offensive in less than two years.

There is no electricity. Food and water are scarce. Sand-bagged streets reverberate with gunfire and the roar of military trucks.

"People of my age hate Taliban. Look what they did to this splendid city,"
said Saranzeb Khan, 18, one of a few thousand people unable to flee Mingora before the military onslaught began in Swat on May 8.

He spoke to a group of reporters flown to Mingora by the military, who now say they control up to 70 percent of the city.

Standing in a queue and waiting for food handouts from a military truck, the distressed Khan looked at the deserted road in disbelief.

"We have no electricity here, no telephones, no natural gas to cook food and no water," said Khan, a college student.

A few burka-clad women with children shuffled onto the roads, desperate to find one of the food distribution points.

Up until about a week ago, emboldened Taliban rebels patrolled Mingora's streets, armed with guns and rocket launchers, in their bid to expand their control and impose a harsh brand on Islamic law in the region.

A Taliban spokesman said this week that insurgents were leaving the city and calling a halt to fighting to avoid civilian casualties.

Mohammad Shakil, 25, lives in the Shah Mardan neighbourhood of Mingora, and told AFP by telephone that fighters barged into his house two days ago, apparently seeking ways to flee the city in disguise.

"They demanded a razor and quickly shaved off their beards," said Shakil.

"They also demanded my clothes and changed their dress. While leaving, one of them threw a packet of Pakistani currency notes worth 10,000 rupees (124 dollars). 'This is your share in our war booty', he said."


Brigadier Tahir Hameed, the operation commander for Mingora, told reporters that about 1,500 militants were still fighting, but that the army controlled 60 to 70 percent of the city.

He said 286 militants had been killed in Mingora since the start of the operation and that the city should be cleared of insurgents within five days.

The military says a total of 1,200 militants and 76 soldiers have died in the onslaught, launched in the districts of Lower Dir on April 26, Buner on April 28 and Swat on May 8, but those tolls cannot be confirmed independently.

In Mingora, most buildings and markets on important intersections remained intact.

One exception was the notorious Green Chowk area, a square where the Taliban used to dump their victims' bodies. Buildings were punctured with bullet marks and gaping holes caused by mortar shells, said an AFP reporter
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There has been no word on civilian casualties, but those who have fled the conflict zone in the northwest tell of innocent lives lost in indiscriminate military bombing and homes flattened.

The city usually has a population of 300,000, but most have fled, joining nearly 2.4 million other people the United Nations says have been displaced from the conflict zone.

AFP: Ghost town of Pakistan's Swat
 
Key militant commander arrested in Mingora: Aaj TV


MINGORA (updated on: May 28, 2009, 15:03 PST): An Aaj TV reported on Thursday that a Key militant commander Ghani ur Rehman has been arrested from Mingora.

The militant commander Ghani ur Rehman, who came from Afghanistan three years ago, was involved in attacks on the security personnel in Pakistan.

It is pertinent that he was charged with slaughter of at least five police and killing a soldier.

Key militant commander arrested in Mingora: <i>Aaj TV</i> : Business Recorder | LATEST NEWS
 
Key militant commander arrested in Mingora: Aaj TV


MINGORA (updated on: May 28, 2009, 15:03 PST): An Aaj TV reported on Thursday that a Key militant commander Ghani ur Rehman has been arrested from Mingora.

The militant commander Ghani ur Rehman, who came from Afghanistan three years ago, was involved in attacks on the security personnel in Pakistan.

It is pertinent that he was charged with slaughter of at least five police and killing a soldier.

Key militant commander arrested in Mingora: <i>Aaj TV</i> : Business Recorder | LATEST NEWS

Key commander Ghani ur Rehman -- his name not included in most wanted list in adv posted above. The above mentioned must be get caught or killed as it will shatter morale of remaining militants.

However, great news. Why they captured him? Kill them on spot or after investigation--they have not shown any mercy for our captured soldiers.

Go 4 Kill, Wipe out

P.S. about the pics, me too have only seen muslim & fazullah. It means ISI have these pics before but they didn't release earlier. don't know why??
 
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Security forces enter Bahrain
Updated at: 1531 PST, Thursday, May 28, 2009
MINGORA: The security forces entered the Swat area of Bahrain and people carrying national flags welcomed them, Geo News reported on Thursday.

According to sources, there are reports regarding the clashes between the militants and the security forces on the road leading to Bahrain.

Meantime, the whole district is under curfew for 15 days. The security forces personnel are giving food and other necessary items to the to the people trapped in curfew in tehsil Barikot.

The security forces continued bombardment the whole night in the Lower Dir areas on the hideouts of militants; however, no reports regarding the deaths were received.

The curfew was clamped in Kalpani area adjacent to Lower Dir and Upper Dir, where over 30 militants were killed in a operation.

The curfew in tehsil Maidan and Adeenzai will be relaxed from 7am to 5pm.
Security forces enter Bahrain - GEO.tv



does anyone know where is Bahrain?? is it a part of mangora or one of the main towns of swat??
 
Key commander Ghani ur Rehman -- his name not included in most wanted list add posted above. The above mentioned must be get caught or killed as it will shatter morale of remaining militants.

However, great news. Why they captured him? Kill them on spot or after investigation--they have not shown any mercy for our captured soldiers.

Go 4 Kill, Wipe out

P.S. about the pics, me too have only seen muslim & fazullah. It means ISI have these pics before but they didn't release earlier. don't know why??

he is just a local commader. even i think they should be killed rit at the spot or atleast after gettin all the info.
i know these pics should be release earlier. but its always hard to understand how things work in Pak so never mind
 
Swat to be secured in five weeks: official By Anwar Iqbal
Thursday, 28 May, 2009 | 06:43 AM PST |
WASHINGTON: It will take four to five weeks to wipe out the militants from Swat, Pakistan&#8217;s Defence Attach&#233; Brig Nazir Butt told a briefing in Washington, expressing the military&#8217;s resolve to defeat the insurgency that threatens to destabilise the country.

The briefing, the first of its kind in Washington, covered both the military and political aspects of the militancy, with a strong focus on the operation in Swat and Buner.

Brig Butt told a select gathering of Pakistani-Americans that 150,000 soldiers were involved in the offensive, including five infantry divisions, 58 wings of the Frontier Corps and one SSG battalion. The army was also using helicopters to target the militants while the PAF was providing air support.

The Swat operation was launched on April 25 and realising the strategic importance of the offensive, the military cordoned off the entire area, blocking all escape routes.

This allowed the military to quickly regain most of the territories the militants had captured. &#8216;Now only 6-7 pockets of resistance were left and that too will be cleared in the next 4-5 weeks,&#8217; the brigadier said.


The military, he said, was determined to carry out the operation &#8216;until the last insurgent is eliminated&#8217;.

In Buner, the military had retaken 85 per cent of the territory captured by the militants. Brig Butt, however, acknowledged that the military still faced &#8216;heavy resistance&#8217; in some areas, such as Pir Baba and Shangla. In the adjacent areas, the militants were also showing some resistance in places like Dhoke Darra and Basharzai, he added.

The military killed 820 militants, injured about 600 and captured 657.

Brig Butt said that there was a basic difference between the current and previous offensives against the militants: &#8216;This offensive enjoys tremendous local and national support.&#8217;

The local population in Swat thwarted the militants&#8217; attempt to create a human shield to prevent the military from attacking them, he said, adding: &#8216;If we had this kind of support in the past too, the situation would have been different.&#8217;

Militants&#8217; policies, Brig Butt said, also caused the people to turn against them.

&#8216;Whenever they come to a village, they ask every family to give a young man to them, or donate Rs50,000 to their cause or marry a woman to one of the Taliban. Such policies, obviously, do not endear you to the local population.&#8217;

The brigadier said there were an estimated 6,000 militants in the Malakand division, mostly Afghans. There were also some Uzbeks and Arabs among them while volunteers from Punjab were the second largest group among the militants after the Afghans.

The extremists, he said, were armed with latest weapons, even night vision equipment and explosives. The military, he said, had seized some Indian rifles from the militants and was now focusing on closing their supply route.

The military did not have the capability to jam FM radio transmissions by militants&#8217; leaders but was now acquiring this technology &#8216;from our allies,&#8217; said Brig Butt when asked why they failed to block such transmission that encouraged people to commit violence in the name of religion.

Brig Butt said there were three key points for scoring a final victory against the militants: a transparent and trouble-free rehabilitation of the displaced people, closing all escape routes and enhancing the capabilities of the local administration and civilian law-enforcement agencies.

Brig Butt acknowledged that there were &#8216;certain vagueness&#8217; in the government&#8217;s policies towards the militants in the past when someone in the audience asked why the authorities failed to notice that the Taliban were entrenching themselves in Swat.

Ambassador Husain Haqqani asked the Pakistani-American community to contribute generously to various relief and rehabilitation funds set up to help the IDPs. He said all relevant information had been posted on the embassy&#8217;s website at Pakistan Embassy in Washington DC, USA welcomes you.

The donations can be made through cheques or bank and credit cards. The National Bank of Pakistan in Washington DC is also receiving donations.

The envoy also urged Pakistani-Americans to encourage their fellow Americans to donate $5 each by text messaging word SWAT from their cell phones to number 20222.

DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Swat to be secured in five weeks: official
 
Pakistani army soldiers escort a suspect

May 28, 2009
AFP


Talibans killed a muslim whose trouser was below his ankle, as i read in newspaper. :angry: Until now we are only hearing about "modern" talibans. Now see these pics. These bastards have really shove their beard & shorten their hairs.....:rofl:

Pakistani army solders escort a suspected Taliban militant as they are presented to journalists inside an army base in Mingora, the capital of troubled Swat valley.









A deadly battle is looming over the capital of Swat, where armed Taliban have mined roads and dug trenches around 200,000 trapped civilians encircled by Pakistani troops, residents and officials say.
 
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I heared on ARY about all the bomb blasts in last 2 days in diffrent areas of Pakistan. In Lahore a person related to ISI giving an interview to ARY on the spot of terroris incident cofirmed that indians RAW is fully involved in all this mess, they are backing all these terrorists to destabilize Pakistan, trying to convince the whole world that Pakistan is a failed state (a silly indian propaganda) and that there are enough evidences that proves indian involvement but the goverment is still not taking any step....why??! Is our leader ship the real traitors of the nation?...then shame on Zardari and all other leaders who are beign used by U.S. against our national interests.

we know very well who are our enemies...there is no need to write their names everytime....but time will also come for them, we will revenge every single life that we lost during these last bloody years!:agree:
 
I dont see any of the above pictures.... why? .... please send me the most wanted taliban pic, i relly wanna see,.... also brilTek can u send me those pics too,.... please.................................. send me it at 0_s.w.a.t_0@live.com
 
reportin on mingora.

 
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US should stop worrying about Pak nukes: Abbas

RAWALPINDI: Military spokesman Maj-Gen Athar Abbas says that many of the Taliban's arms are coming across the border from Afghanistan.

In an interview with a foreign news channel, he said: &#8220;Washington is too focused on the safety of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.&#8221; The United States should "stop worrying about the nukes and start worrying about the weapons lost in Afghanistan," he said.

He also commented: &#8220;Taliban also are getting weapons and support from "foreign intelligence agencies."

Abbas opined that the current conflict there is intricately linked to the situation in Afghanistan. To a question he said that Swat is a political problem, which can only be partially solved by military intervention.

He estimated that 10 to 15 percent of the Taliban there are foreign fighters: "Well-trained Arabs, Afghans, with a sprinkling of central Asians and North Africans."

He said Mingora city may be secured in 48 hours, but it may be much, much longer before the area is totally pacified. "First you have to disarm the Taliban and then re-establish the writ of government," he said.

Clearest accusations against foreign national and foreign intelligence aid to Taleban yet. Coming straight from the frontlines, the world must take notice.
 

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