Taliban Kill 22 peace committee members

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

22 peace committee members killed, 8 missing in S Waziristan​

Updated at: 0955 PST, Wednesday, June 25, 2008

WANA: Extremists in South Waziristan have killed twenty-two members of peace committee.

Their bodies have been recovered from Kariwam area in Jandola on Wednesday. Eight members are still reported missing. The deceased were belonged to Bhatni tribe.

Extremists had been kidnapped 30 members of the peace committee on Tuesday after a clash in South Waziristan. Situation becomes tense in the area after the recovery of the bodies.

22 peace committee members killed, 8 missing in S Waziristan

I think this has gone far enough.

The bastards are starving and killing innocent people from a different sect in Kurram, killing peace committee members, abducting SF's again (17 yesterday) and have attacked SF's in Swat as well - and then they have the gall to say that "the peace deals are still intact".

There is nothing Islamic here, nothing pure, nothing worth having a "dialog" about.

 

[Tang0]

What is a "Peace Committee"?

 

[vish]

Sorry for the profanity, but what exactly do these eff-ers want?

 

[EagleEyes]

What is a "Peace Committee"?

The committee behind peace agreement between Pakistan and the Pakistani Taliban who have no interest to wage war within Pakistan or use the Pakistani lands to launch attacks against NATO inside Afghanistan.

The bastards oppose to it are beheading the people of the "peace commitee" because in their sense they are sucking up with the Pakistani government.

In other words. They want war, and a united front to wage war throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan in order to succeed in their desired missions.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

What is a "Peace Committee"?

I believe they are Tribal elders mostly, negotiating and monitoring the "peace deals" and "ceasefire" between the Government and Taliban or between warring tribes.

Attacking them essentially means that the recourse to Tribal institutions and systems has been effectively removed from the equation. If the Taliban are not going to respect traditional Tribal institutions, then there is no way the GoP can ensure compliance with anything, or enforce it without maintaining a heavy military presence, which is something the Taliban wanted removed before they even started negotiating.

Of course the fact that the Taliban did not care for traditional Tribal institutions was evident from the killing of over 250 Tribal elders over the last few years, but this is an extremely blatant attack.

 

[roadrunner]

Not sure about Taliban, it's a broad word now..depends who wants to disrupt these peace processes.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Sorry for the profanity, but what exactly do these eff-ers want?

I think its fair to say that the Taliban have had their confidence bolstered by the peace deals and withdrawal of the Army.

In the la la land they live in, the thrashing Mullah FM got in Swat and B Mehsud got in Waziristan was promptly turned into "victory" when "negotiations" were attempted.

As I said a few months ago, what the Pakistani Taliban want is to control Pakistan, as outlandish as that goal may seem. One of the TTP's main requests was that no Taliban activity be stopped anywhere in Pakistan in exchange for not attacking SF's.

The fighting (or their twisted perverted Jihad) in Afghanistan against NATO serves as the "moral" justification for them, but their activities in Pakistan far outnumber their activities in Afghanistan.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

RR:

This is definitely the Pakistani Taliban, and Baitullah Mehsud to boot.

Militants pull back from Jandola​

By Alamgir Bhittani


TANK, June 24: Tanks and armoured personnel carriers rolled into the Frontier Region of Jandola on Tuesday after the area fell to supporters of Baitullah Mehsud.

Helicopter gunships also bombed suspected locations of militants in the area, adjacent to the South Waziristan tribal region, but there were no casualties.

Baitullah’s men took control of Jandola town, Soor Kali and Kari Wam on Monday after heavy clashes with Bhittani tribesmen.

Tank DCO Berkatullah Marwat told reporters that the death toll had reached 15 in the ongoing clashes between the warring groups and 35 houses had been burnt.

The clashes erupted after Baitullah’s men attacked the house of peace committee head, Commander Turkistan, in the Soor Ghar area. They also set on fire houses of several peace committee members.

Mr Turkistan had won the government backing after he challenged the writ of Baitullah’s supporters in the area. He is reported to have taken shelter in a paramilitary forces’ fort in Jandola.

Sources said the Baitullah’s men had taken hostage 27 elders of Minshamel clan, a sub-section of the Bhittani tribe.

Security forces, backed by tanks and APCs, were heading to the Manzai Fort in Jandola, triggering speculations about a military operation in the area.

Militants pull back from Jandola -DAWN - Top Stories; June 25, 2008

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Fresh Swat clashes leave 10 dead​

By Hameedullah Khan


MINGORA, June 24: One security man and nine militants were killed and 14 others were injured during a fresh gunbattle between security forces and the local Taliban in Swat on Tuesday.

A curfew was clamped on Matta tehsil of Swat district and security personnel were put on high alert.

It was the first gunbattle between security forces and Maulana Fazlullah’s supporters since the signing of a peace agreement in May.

The military and Taliban blamed each other for the attack.

NWFP senior minister Bashir Bilour said the incident had taken place because of a misunderstanding.

“We have contacted the Swat administration and the situation is now under control.” He said that troops were on a flag-march in the area which had created a misunderstanding and led to exchange of fire.

The clashes forced the Taliban to postpone a meeting of its Shura. However, Taliban spokesman told Dawn from an unspecified place that the peace agreement signed with the NWFP government would remain intact till further meeting of the Shura.

Swat media centre spokesman Col Nadeem said four militants had been killed after a security man had come under fire at 7am near the Sambat area in Matta. The security forces took control of the strategic hilltop after three hours of gunfight.

He said five more militants, including most wanted Taliban commander Khan Agha, had been killed and four others injured when the assailants attacked a security checkpost in the Kalakot area. A security man had been killed and a policeman and two civilians injured, he said.

Locals said both sides had openly used heavy and light weapons.

Seven policemen were injured when their van came under fire near the Allaabad area of Charbagh. They were taken to the district headquarters hospital in Saidu Sharif.

The militants are reported to have set on fire two government schools in the Shur area of Matta tehsil. The area is under the Taliban control.

Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan accused the security forces of igniting the situation and said the incident had taken place at a time when a meeting of the Taliban was going on at an undisclosed location.

He said that only two Taliban, identified as Khan Agha and Shehzad, had been killed and two others injured during the gunbattle in Sambat.

He said the Taliban had fired in self defence after security personnel encircled them and pounded their positions in the nearby hills in upper Swat.

Fresh Swat clashes leave 10 dead -DAWN - Top Stories; June 25, 2008

Here are the details of the Swat incident, and notice that the Taliban are not denying their involvement.

Whether its the TTP, the Uzbeks or AQ - I don't care. They are all cut from the same cloth at this point.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

An editorial from the Dailytimes, and the last line sums up the attitude of many Pakistanis perfectly:

Second Editorial: Meanwhile, Baitullah triumphs again

The Taliban warlord and head of the “emirate” of the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Baitullah Mehsud, has mopped up the little pocket of resistance at the edge of South Waziristan to claim the entire territory as his own. He has taken Jandola after killing four local tribesmen considered “pro-Pakistan”. His militants have also entered the already troubled Khyber Agency and kidnapped 15 khassadars or paramilitary staff in order to use them as pawns for the release of men in Pakistani custody. The Taliban have also executed the 8 drivers they had caught taking food to the starving Shia population of a besieged Kurram Agency.

Meanwhile, Pakistani politics is centred on the PPP-PMLN tussle over the judges. Politicians have ignored the creeping loss of Pakistani territory to the Taliban and Al Qaeda by choosing an apparently “easier” enemy across the border in Kabul. The war to end Pakistan is going on. Our answer is: this is not our war! There cannot be a more damning statement of our ignorance and impotence than this.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

 

[ddrbdgzy]

taliban is terrorist in the world, because they killed innocent people

the group who killed innocent people is the enemy of the all mankind

 

[nitesh]

taliban is terrorist in the world, because they killed innocent people

News mentions about "extremists" not taliban. Now why the hell you written this useless post.

 

[roadrunner]

taliban is terrorist in the world, because they killed innocent people

I'm not sure who the Taliban are (well it's Mullah Omar's group, but it takes away my point). There seems to be hundreds of groups claiming to be Taliban.

When one looks at the Taliban, they were no more brutal than the Northern Alliance. Their mistake was perhaps they were too tribalistic and rigid in their ways. But they are consistent.

 

[EagleEyes]

We need noise. Apparently, a little news headline from Geo News. Nothing else.

Gosh, do your jobs. Other than publicizing the useless politicians over the freaking judges issue!

 

[IceCold]

Geo is just busy in spreading its own version of the propaganda done by various political parties just to get the chair.
But anyways these days one never knows who are the tailban? Meaning that i was reading some news where Mullah Omar' spokesman declared that what Mehsud is doing is doing on his own accord and has nothing to do with the tailban movement. Mehsud and Mullah Fm should be taken out before we can expect any peace deals to work. Otherwise it will just be waste or resources and time and moreover the humiliation that it will bring to Pakistan in the international community, " see we told you that this deal isnt gonna work, you didnt listen and look what happened"