Pakistani Forces against Militants.

[salmakh84]

May 17, 2011. Tuesday


(Reuters) - Pakistani security forces shot dead five suspected al Qaeda-linked militants who had tried to carry out a suicide bombing in southwestern city of Quetta on Tuesday, police and paramilitary officials said.

The would-be bombers included three women and were believed to be foreigners, police said. They were killed in an gunfight near a paramilitary checkpost in Quetta, a city is believed to be a base for the Afghan Taliban leadership.

"From the appearance of the attackers, it looks they were either Uzbek or Chechens," a senior security official told reporters at the site of incident. "They had hand grenades and bombs strapped to their bodies."

If the attack had been carried out, it would have been the second targeting Pakistan's military since al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. raid earlier this month.

Pakistan's Taliban, which is close to al Qaeda, has vowed to avenge bin Laden's death and last week, its suicide bombers killed 80 people at a paramilitary academy in the northwestern town of Charsadda.

Suicide bombings carried out by women are rare in Pakistan, a strategic U.S. ally facing al Qaeda-backed Taliban insurgents.

A police official said at least one of the attackers blew himself up before being shot. No security forces were killed, the officials said.

Pakistan's southwestern tribal area along the Afghan border has been described as a global hub for militants, including Arabs and Chechens.

Pakistan's commitment to fighting militancy has come under intense scrutiny after it was discovered that bin Laden appeared to have spent years living in there before he was killed by U.S. special forces in a garrison town not far from the capital Islamabad on May 2

Wow. credible reporting. This prooves, everyone and anyone killed by pakistani forces is a terrorist! even if its a pregant unarmed woman or a 1 yr old child.

Imagine if quetta was out of bounds for journalists as well. Congratulations would have flown from everywhere and FC's would have been awarded "inaams"... too bad stupid journalists caught most of the incident on camera! Thank God army doesnt let journalist go in the northern areas. Imagine if all the images of dead bodies started coming out!

 

[MyPakistan1947]

Long Live Pakistani Army

 

[Last Hope]

May 31, 2011. Tuesday.


KALAYA: At least 17 militants were killed and 12 others injured in an air strike by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in the Mamozai area of Upper Orakzai Agency on Tuesday, a senior regional government official said.

The official suspects that Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Commander Tariq Afridi who was leading militants in Darra Adam Khel could also be among the dead.

The Afridi group was involved in twin suicide attacks at Kohat Tunnel, the murder of a Polish engineer and other terrorist attacks in Peshawar and Hangu areas.

The planes targeted and destroyed four militant hideouts in Mir Kaleem Khel, Tosamat and Akhoon-kot areas of the agency.

Security forces also recovered a huge cache of weapons during a search operation in various areas of the agency.

The attack on militants is part of the ongoing offensive to restore government’s writ in the area.

Orakzai is one of the tribal regions along the Afghan border where the army has tried to root out militants with offensives against their strongholds.

“We had information that militants gathered there and were planning attacks so we launched the attack,” senior government official Zaman Khan told Reuters in Kalaya, the main town of Orakzai.

An earlier strike had killed at least 26 militants and destroyed about a dozen of their hideouts as fighter jets bombed targets Orakzai.


"Few days ago we have a thread about operation in the area. Started the operation with A2G strikes?"

 

[Last Hope]

June 2, 2011. Thursday.

Pakistan's northwest border with Afghanistan has for years been a stomping ground for extremists, some of whom focus on attacks against Western forces across the border, and others who prefer to attack the Pakistani state because of its ties to the United States. — File Photo
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PESHAWAR: Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban besieged a Pakistani checkpost on the Afghan border for a second day Thursday, martyring 28 security officials and six civilians in the deadliest fighting for months.

Forty-five militants were also killed in the ensuing clash, a DawnNews report said.

A senior police official told AFP that 500 militants, including Afghan Taliban from across the border and Pakistani Taliban, took part in the attack which began before dawn on Wednesday and continued more than 24 hours later.

Officials said the militants targeted the Shaltalu checkpoint, surrounded by mountains and forest in the northwestern district of Upper Dir, about six kilometres from the border with Afghanistan’s Kunar province.

The Pakistani military sent reinforcements to the police checkpost, deploying helicopter gunships in a bid to quell the attack in an area accessible on the ground only by foot.

“We have regained control of most of the area but fighting is still going on in some parts near the checkpost, which was attacked by around 500 Pakistani and Afghan Taliban,” regional police chief Qazi Jamilur Rehman told AFP.

He said 34 people were killed in the attack, including 28 policemen and six civilians, among them two women and two children, who died when mortar rounds struck nearby houses. He had earlier put the death toll at 28.

“Twelve houses were hit by mortar shelling. Militants are now on the run and we are confident to be in control of the entire area by this evening,” he said.

Abdul Rehman said more than 20 police were wounded, but he had no information on casualties among the Taliban. By early afternoon, residents and a local official said thuds of gunfire could be heard intermittently in the area.

“Frontier Corps (paramilitary) troops, army helicopters and artillery and police personnel are taking part in the operation,” said Rehman.

An Afghan police official in Kunar told AFP he was aware that the Taliban or other militiamen had launched attacks “on the other side of the border” and said they had no connection to Afghan government security forces.

Upper Dir is part of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and borders the region where the military waged a major offensive to put down a local Taliban insurgency in Lower Dir, Buner and Swat in 2009.

 

[Last Hope]

June 04, 2011. Saturday.

PESHAWAR: Security forces killed 26 militants in the northwestern Pakistani region of Upper Dir.

Police official Bahadur Khan said the insurgents were targeted Saturday when they invaded from Afghanistan’s Kunar province and opened fire on troops in the Nustrat Darra district.

He said the troops suffered no casualties in the latest fighting.

The situation has been tense in Upper Dir since Wednesday, when about 400 insurgents attacked a security post and killed 25 personnel.

Khan said security forces have killed about 100 insurgents since then and the situation was under control.

 

[Last Hope]

June 17, 2011. Friday.

KHAR, Pakistan: Pakistani security forces backed by artillery killed 12 militants Friday in a northwestern tribal region where insurgents have been mounting cross-border attacks from Afghanistan, a government administrator said.

Al-Qaeda and Taleban militants have found safe haven in parts of the border region since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan, attacking both American troops in Afghanistan and targets inside Pakistan. The results of Pakistani and NATO military operations along the border have been patchy.

The search operation on Friday took place in the Mamund area of the Bajour tribal region.

It came a day after more than 200 militants launched a cross-border attack into Pakistan on a village in the same area, killing five people in the second such raid in two weeks.

Government official Tariq Khan said Friday’s search came after fresh intelligence reports on militants coming from Afghanistan to the area to target tribal militiamen and troops stationed there.

“We are deploying additional security forces in our villages and towns located near the Afghan border to protect our areas,” he said, adding that tribal elders were asked to remain vigilant and alert authorities of any militant movement.

 

[RescueRanger]

Just came back from training EDO office officials in SWAT. The army is doing an AMAZING job, we are an ungrateful people.

Pakistan Zindabad, Pakistan Army Zindabad!

 

[Last Hope]

Just came back from training EDO office officials in SWAT. The army is doing an AMAZING job, we are an ungrateful people.

Pakistan Zindabad, Pakistan Army Zindabad!

Sure it is. By the bold part, do you mean citizens, media or both?

Surely this makes some sense: http://www.defence.pk/forums/military-photos-multimedia/112175-our-army-needs-us-now.html

Regards.

 

[unicorn]

Inshallah! Pakistan Army will replicate the success like SWAT in Waziristan.

 

[Pak_Sher]

Just came back from training EDO office officials in SWAT. The army is doing an AMAZING job, we are an ungrateful people.

Pakistan Zindabad, Pakistan Army Zindabad!

Long Live Pakistan Armed Forces.

 

[S-A-B-E-R->]

June 04, 2011. Saturday.

PESHAWAR: Security forces killed 26 militants in the northwestern Pakistani region of Upper Dir.

Police official Bahadur Khan said the insurgents were targeted Saturday when they invaded from Afghanistan’s Kunar province and opened fire on troops in the Nustrat Darra district.

He said the troops suffered no casualties in the latest fighting.

The situation has been tense in Upper Dir since Wednesday, when about 400 insurgents attacked a security post and killed 25 personnel.

Khan said security forces have killed about 100 insurgents since then and the situation was under control.

the pic seems to be from a traning excercise

 

[King Solomon]

Just came back from training EDO office officials in SWAT. The army is doing an AMAZING job, we are an ungrateful people.

Pakistan Zindabad, Pakistan Army Zindabad!

True, we ARE ungrateful! It is only due to the sincerety of Pakistan armed forces gifted by Allah that we are alive and secure.

 

[Last Hope]

June 18, 2011. Saturday.

PESHAWAR: Security forces killed six militants after insurgents attacked a military checkpost in the South Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border, martyring two soldiers, DawnNews reported.

The attack occurred in the tribal region’s Ladha area.
South Waziristan was the main sanctuary for the Pakistani Taliban before the military launched a large ground offensive in October 2009. But attacks against security forces have continued in the area.

 

[Last Hope]

June 19, 2011 Sunday.

Pakistan army, paramilitary troops and the air force launched a joint operation “to evict terrorists' stronghold of Walidad” in the northwest district of Mohmand, Military said. - AFP photo

PESHAWAR: Pakistani war planes pounded a militant stronghold in a tribal district on the Afghan border in an operation that left 25 insurgents dead, the military said Sunday.

Pakistan army, paramilitary troops and the air force launched a joint operation “to evict terrorists’ stronghold of Walidad” in the northwest district of Mohmand on Saturday, it said.

“Ground operation was preceded with precise strikes by Pakistan Air Force aircraft on terrorists’ bunkers and positions,” it said.

“After an intensive fight, troops were able to secure Walidad Top and surrounding areas of the mountain and managed to kill 25 terrorists, while remaining fled across the border,” it said.

Four soldiers were martyred and eight wounded.

Local officials earlier said three soldiers were killed and at least 13 wounded when dozens of Taliban stormed a check post in the region near the Afghan border.

The pre-dawn attack was mounted in Baizai village of Mohmand facing the eastern Afghan province of Kunar, local administration chief Maqsood Hussain told AFP.

“The militants, believed to be more than 50 and armed with light and heavy weapons, launched an attack on Walidad Kor post, triggering a gunfight that lasted about an hour,” he said.

Three soldiers of the paramilitary Frontier Corps were killed and at least 13 wounded, he said adding that four militants were killed and an unspecified number wounded.

The military statement said “troops are consolidating their positions in the area and search operation for remnants is in progress.”

Mohmand is one of seven districts in Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal belt where Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants frequently launch attacks targeting police, government and security officials.

 

[Kompromat]

^Bomb the crap out of them !