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An update on this story. Will Pakistan's military follow through on retaining control of the areas, or have they now looked busy long enough to placate the West for a while? "Pakistani Offensive in Bara Makes Questionable Gains," by Laura King for the Los Angeles Times, June 30:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — When government troops pushed their way into a local warlord's stronghold just outside one of Pakistan's major cities over the weekend, what they found followed a familiar pattern.
With plenty of warning from officials that troops were coming, Islamic insurgents in the mountainous Bara district outside Peshawar, the provincial capital, melted away, disappearing into a remote valley to the north.
Pakistani authorities declared yesterday that the district had been restored to their control. But residents said they expected the militants to return whenever it suited them.
What's more, almost no one in Bara's dusty and deprived main town had anything bad to say about the vanished warlord, Menghal Bagh, an illiterate bus driver-turned-cleric. Mr. Bagh maintained law and order, people said, and the shadow government he set up in recent months was more effective than the state-sanctioned one.
Even after he and his men had decamped, the black flags of his group, Lashkar-i-Islami, or Army of Islam, still fluttered from homes, schools, and government buildings....
More about Bagh and his popular support in "Flags over Pakistani town signal militant support," from Reuters, June 30:
...Though he and his men are feared by many in Peshawar, in Bara town, a Bagh stronghold about 15km southwest of Peshawar, the thin commander with a bushy beard is well regarded.
“He’s nice man. He’s being painted as a bad man because he talks about Islam,” said resident Fazal-e-Mehboob standing by the debris of Bagh’s house that security forces blew up on Saturday.
Posted by Marisol at July 1, 2008 12:35 AM
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It reads like more than a House needed to be flattened.
It seems that collecting the run-of did not cross their minds.
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at July 1, 2008 7:55 AM
Just the way it is. Show some action and pretend being friends with the west and get the well needed jizya from the western governments and continue the Jihad and support the fellow UMMAH. US senator Joe Bidden proposing a new unconditional aid of billions of dollars to Pakistan and in his words to "Show Pakistan that we are a true ally of Pakistan." What a joke and a waste of our tax dollars. Pakistan is not our ally its people hate the US and Israel it uses taquiya to deceive and continue attacking the west and India. It has failed as a democracy and most of the western Muslims get their training in the Pakistan. It does not want to attack its fellow Muslims.
Posted by: savsiv at July 1, 2008 8:46 AM
"US anti-Islamic policies responsible for terrorism
Sun, 2008-06-29 02:09
By Asif Haroon Raja
Till 9/11, all our Jihadis (now dubbed as extremists) were waging Jihad outside Pakistan, whether in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Chechnya or Kosovo. After terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, ...."
From the article below.
http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/11972
at July 1, 2008 9:53 AM
"US anti-Islamic policies responsible for terrorism
Sun, 2008-06-29 02:09
By Asif Haroon Raja
Till 9/11, all our Jihadis (now dubbed as extremists) were waging Jihad outside Pakistan, whether in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Chechnya or Kosovo. After terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, ...."
"The public does not fear the religious extremists and are not fearful of them. It is USA and our spineless secular leaders that are afraid of them. The people sympathies are with them since they consider them the real bearers of Islam and the only ones who can keep the perverse American influence and western culture at bay. They feel that the Islamists and not the nuclear capability is the best deterrence against foreign aggression. How can they forget the commendable role of the tribals in 1948 war? But for their voluntary intrusion, Azad Kashmir would also have become part of India. During the 1965 war and ten-year Afghan war, they zealously guarded the western border without army support. They are natural fighters and a great asset for the country but wrong policies of our leaders have turned the asset into liability."
From the article below.
http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/11972
Posted by: arjun.sevak at July 1, 2008 9:55 AM
The people support the militants. They deserve whatever happens to them. Don't come crying when your home is blown up. No one with half a brain will listen to you.
Posted by: PMK at July 1, 2008 10:56 AM
The peshawar operation is directed by macain supporters who have given 8 F 16s to pakistan.Only Frontier constabulary was involved and not pakistan army. the jehadies were riding along with FC and giving directions for hitting houses etc.
Posted by: captain at July 1, 2008 11:34 AM
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