After a rash of suicide bombings in Pakistan the past few days, the Pakistani military decided to make a statement and that they did. Pakistani fighter jets bombed the village area of Mero Bak in Orakzai Agency today targeting Taliban hideouts and in the end, killed 17 Taliban jihadis.
From the article at Breitbart:
Operations like this have been few and far between lately by the Pakistani air force - I believe it has been about 17 days since we've seen a fixed wing strike on the Taliban and I'm convinced that the suicide bombings this past week instigated this airstrike.
What the Pakistani government is slow to learn is that there will never be any peace in this region of the country or in the country as a whole until they have driven the Taliban completely from Pakistan. It really is as simple as that. If you have a cancerous tumor in the body, surgeons don't go in and cut half of it out and then hope for the best - no, they cut the entire tumor our along with an area of good tissue surrounding it and then blast it with radiation. I hope that "treatment" starts to sink in for leaders in Islamabad.
From the article at Breitbart:
Pakistani fighter jets pounded Taliban hide-outs near the Afghan border Sunday, killing 17 insurgents, local officials said.
The hide-outs were in the village of Mero Bak in the Taliban stronghold of the Lower Orakzai tribal region, said Rasheed Khan, an Orakzai official. The air attack killed nine militants, he added.
One of the bombed houses belonged to a local Taliban commander, Aslam Farooqi, but it was not clear if he was among those killed.
Jabir Gul, another local official, said the bombing in neighboring Upper Orakzai killed eight more Taliban fighters.
Operations like this have been few and far between lately by the Pakistani air force - I believe it has been about 17 days since we've seen a fixed wing strike on the Taliban and I'm convinced that the suicide bombings this past week instigated this airstrike.
What the Pakistani government is slow to learn is that there will never be any peace in this region of the country or in the country as a whole until they have driven the Taliban completely from Pakistan. It really is as simple as that. If you have a cancerous tumor in the body, surgeons don't go in and cut half of it out and then hope for the best - no, they cut the entire tumor our along with an area of good tissue surrounding it and then blast it with radiation. I hope that "treatment" starts to sink in for leaders in Islamabad.
Pakistani jets pound Taliban hide-outs; 17 killed
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani fighter jets pounded Taliban hide-outs near the Afghan border Sunday, killing 17 insurgents, local officials said.
The hide-outs were in the village of Mero Bak in the Taliban stronghold of the Lower Orakzai tribal region, said Rasheed Khan, an Orakzai official. The air attack killed nine militants, he added.
One of the bombed houses belonged to a local Taliban commander, Aslam Farooqi, but it was not clear if he was among those killed.
Jabir Gul, another local official, said the bombing in neighboring Upper Orakzai killed eight more Taliban fighters.
Orakzai is the base of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, who officials believe was killed in a U.S. missile strike early this year. The group insists he is alive, but has not provided any evidence.
Violence has surged in Pakistan in recent days as militants—thought to be part of a loose network of Islamist insurgents fighting the U.S.-allied Islamabad government—launched a wave of suicide bombings. The attacks have killed 88 people in a little over a week.
On Saturday, a suicide bomber killed 13 people at a security checkpoint in the Swat Valley in northwestern Pakistan.
Elsewhere in Pakistan, suspected militants tried to blow up a NATO oil tanker Sunday in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, near the Afghan border, police official Zia Mandokhel said.
A bomb, planted in the truck's undercarriage, misfired, causing just a hole in the tanker and an oil spill, he said. A civilian was injured.
The incident occurred in the border town of Chaman along an important route for NATO supplies heading into Afghanistan.
Militants regularly target trucks taking supplies to U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan.
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