As if almost on cue, after my criticism of Pakistan's languishing military operations against the Taliban, the Pakistanis launched an aerial assault on Taliban hideouts in the Orakzai agency in northwest Pakistan today - those air strikes are reported to have killed at least 17 Taliban.
Isn't it funny how Pakistan can do a bombing raid like this in northwestern Pakistan and there isn't a single peep about "civilian casualties" but the minute that American and NATO airstrikes go off in Afghanistan, the pages of the New York Times and Washington Post are filled with the numbers of innocent tribesmen killed.
At the same time that Pakistan's leader is ordering these airstrikes, Afghanistan's Karzai is saying that NATO forces are on the brink of becoming "occupation forces."
The article is at DAWN.
Forces kill seventeen militants in Orakzai agency
PESHAWAR: According to military sources, jets carried out bombing operations in different parts of Upper Orakzai agency on Tuesday, DawnNews reported.
Sources said the jets carried out bombing operations on militant hideouts in the Orakzai area of Mamuzai, killing up to 17 suspected insurgents and destroying five militant hideouts. Sources add that the air strikes are currently underway as further militant hideouts are being targeted.
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