19 militants, 7 troops die in North Waziristan border clash
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NORTH WAZIRISTAN: At least 19 suspected militants, including five commanders, were killed during an exchange of fire with security personnel on Sunday near the North Waziristan-Afghan border according to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
Seven soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing during the clash which occurred on the Laddha-Shawal axis on the boundary between North and South Waziristan.
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| Site of the clash between security personnel and suspected militants. ─ Dawn GIS |
“There was information about militants, and when they were being chased and cordoned, one of them exploded his suicide vest, killing seven of our men," a security official said.
Operations against militants in North Waziristan have been stepped up after the government decided to implement the nation-wide National Action Plan combating terrorism in the country. Suspected militants have also been killed in drone strikes in the region.
Read more: At least nine killed in US drone attack in North Waziristan
Zarb-i-Azb, another military operation which targeted local and foreign militants specifically in North Waziristan was spearheaded following an attack on Karachi's Jinnah International Airport on June 8, 2014.
The government believes that Zarb-i-Azb operation will be completed by the end of 2015, after which a ‘mini-Marshall plan’ will be launched for the socio-economic progress of the people of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
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Jun 08, 2015 01:16pm
Pakistan Army Zindabad. Your sacrifices will not go in vain.
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Jun 08, 2015 01:37pm
RIP our martyred soldiers
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Jun 08, 2015 01:40pm
So by the end of 2015, Pakistani cities will also be cleaned from the terrorists???
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Jun 08, 2015 02:41pm
RIP the brave soldiers. 19 militants were killed along Pak-Afghan border. Pakistan should demand Afghanistan to track these militants entering Pakistan from across the border. Pakistan should also track who is supporting these militants in Afghanistan.
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Jun 08, 2015 03:25pm
I don't like the casualty ratio.
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Jun 08, 2015 03:32pm
Are you kidding by end of 2015 all terrorist will be cleared, remember USA was there in Afghanistan for more than a decade with most advance armament yet nothing could be done to fully eliminate Taliban. Terrorism is an ideology which needs to be tackled with an ideology and good governance.
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Jun 08, 2015 03:34pm
@Naved PAK ARMY & ISI is ready to abolish all agents of enemies.
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Jun 08, 2015 03:44pm
Has any one noticed that the number of militants killed is always more than the numbr of troops?
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Jun 08, 2015 04:01pm
@Naved Terrorism cannot be eliminated, it can be confined and contained. Pakistan army is on the right path in ensuring that it is contained.
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Jun 08, 2015 04:03pm
@Pakistani I've said that in numerous posts. Our brave soldiers need better and long range rifles, better bullet proof vests and training. We have lost way too many soldiers.
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Jun 08, 2015 04:03pm
If ISPR says so !
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Jun 08, 2015 04:06pm
These rats will only run now. Afghanistan should stop sending terrorists into Pakistan.
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Jun 08, 2015 04:11pm
What if I call the militants died as "freedom Fighters"?
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Jun 08, 2015 04:43pm
@Anil
If you are trying to compare the circumstances of Kashmir and fatal, then you are misguided to do so.
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Jun 08, 2015 04:58pm
To our brave soldiers: We don't have words for what you have done and what you continue to do day in and day out. May you get the best in your next abode, and may our soldiers on the ground eliminate this menace permanently.
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Jun 08, 2015 05:12pm
@Ayesha : they coming home now.
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Jun 08, 2015 05:22pm
@Anil So what you would say about Kashmiri freedom fighters ?
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Jun 08, 2015 05:22pm
welcome to waziristan where simply there is no winning. this is now never ending war and will pull pakistan into oblivian. power make you blind, you should have read the British adventure into FATA and Afghanistan.
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Jun 08, 2015 05:42pm
More encounter killings taking place now through out Pakistan - the only way left to wipe out terrorism.
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Jun 08, 2015 06:43pm
Salute to those who are giving their lives for protection of our motherland
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Jun 08, 2015 07:41pm
Ask all colleges to train students in civil defence, paratroopers, disaster management and above all short military training so that these disciplined students become assets and may deal with home grown terrorists. These patriotic force shall be a force useful in all emergencies.
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Jun 08, 2015 08:21pm
Its more than 1 year today and we are still fighting the militants?
What is lacking in us that these militants are still strong and can attack and kill so many of our soldiers?
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Jun 08, 2015 10:51pm
@pakistani Government. Please take care of dead soldiers families, especially the children. They have give the ultimate sacrifice for this nation. Thats the least we can do!! Long live Pakistani Army!! SALUTE!!
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Jun 09, 2015 12:29am
@lafanga ...... If Afghanistan actually had a functioning government that might work.
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Jun 09, 2015 12:34am
@rational guy ...... The Taliban tried to rob the Bank of Afghanistan in Kabul twice. They beat the bank employees with rifle butts but failed to open the bank vault on either occasion. These people are animals.
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Jun 09, 2015 12:37am
@Syed Ganga Din ...... With better tactics there always should be higher losses among the banditos.
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Jun 09, 2015 12:52am
@Sultan Ahmed ..... It is too easy to be ambushed in the mountains, and not easy to hold territory there.
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Jun 09, 2015 04:46am
At out set I am sorry for the loss of human lives may their souls rest in peace. Now regarding the claim that the operation will be completed in 2015 is away from truth. An operation against the extremists,terrorists was launched in North Eastern states the states called seven sisters in the 1950s and is still going on, actually it is extremely difficult to completely wipe out such people in a hilly terrain yest it is possible in plans exaple of which is the Khalistan movement because it is easy to move and watch but in mountains it is extremely difficult only the troops know what they face.
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Jun 09, 2015 05:03am
@Sultan Ahmed Indian Army fighting insurgents in Mizoram,Manipur, Assam for the last fifty years but failed to eliminate them completely and same is the case with Kashmir, in the hilly terrain it is difficult.
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Jun 09, 2015 06:14am
RIP.
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