The Pakistani Spectator

The battlefields are hot, hotter than sun in Swat and South Waziristan. The jawans of Pakistan Army are sacrificing their lives but their resolve is to eliminate the butchers and barbarians who have put the survival of the country at stake and to make our lives once again tranquil and peaceful, without any existential threat of suicide attack or bomb blast or drone attack.

Media sources tell that twenty-two suspected militants and six soldiers were reportedly killed in a daylong military action against the Baitullah Mehsud-led Taliban in the South Waziristan Agency (SWA) yesterday as the troops cleared a portion of the Wana-Jandola Road. Two fighter planes and a couple of gunship helicopters pounded the positions of the militants, who had occupied hilltops and blocked the Wana-Jandola Road between Tanai and Serwakai towns.

Keeping in view the bad experience of the past when around 35 militants, loyal to Baitullah Mehsud, overpowered and kidnapped over 300 Pakistan Army soldiers, the military authorities this time seem careful about the deployment of the troops in the troubled areas. The troops had already been deployed in certain places that until now were in the Taliban control. They said preparations for the big offensive had been finalised but the military authorities first wanted to secure the critical Wana-Jandola Road.

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