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Posts Tagged ‘Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan’

Are Taliban Returning?

By Maria Sultan • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Politics

With the recent horrendously terrible Lahore Suicide attack, the attention of the people has once again reverted to the wearingly familiar pattern of terrorism. After months of uneasy silence, a terrorist struck and killed humans and once again sent a very bad image of the Pakistan across the globe.
Things still remain undefined and potentially [...]



Real Identity of Americans Who Got Killed in Lower Dir

By Guest Blogger • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The three US soldiers who lost their lives on Wednesday in a school bombing incident in Dir Lower were members of the Army Special Forces, which has been training the Frontier Corps to improve its intelligence and combat tactics to effectively fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban insurgents in the Pak-Afghan tribal belt.
It is for the [...]



Rapid Advance of Security Forces in South Waziristan : Beware

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud, the lead terrorist of the country right now is vacating areas of South Waziristan agency while putting up little fight in the way of Pakistani security forces.
Kotkai, Sararogha, Ladha and now Makeen is loosely under the control of the security forces. There was little resistance along the way and [...]



Bara Operation : Another Success of Pakistan Army

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Sep 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

People of Malakand division are rebuilding their lives as the security forces eliminates residue of terorists from far flung areas of the agency. Swat is rising again and so are the other parts of this demolished terrain. These people are indebted to the army and they are the custodian of success achieved by Operation Rah-e-Raast.
Instead [...]



Military Operation Against TTP and It’s Implications

By amicus • Jul 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There seems to be a near-consensus within the organs of the State that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are a mortal threat to the state of Pakistan, and that the military action underway against them should continue till its logical conclusion.
The change in the popular perception came about after they moved from FATA, which appeared a [...]



Kurram Agency Genocide

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jul 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Do you know that Kurram Agency, which is the part of Pakistan is inaccessible from Pakistan and also the people from Kurram Agency cannot travel to the Pakistan? For two years, the main road of Parachinar is cut off and nobody can travel on it. If somebody has to go to rest of the Pakistan, [...]



Baitullah Mehsud : Axis of Evil

By Salman Mugsi • Jun 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, a terrorist organization hailing from the FATA areas of Pakistan has become threat for the whole region. Pakistanis are rendering every kind of sacrifice to save the world and the war is getting more tough, bloody and extended as the time is passing.
The root of the evil is Baitullah Mehsud, the head honcho [...]



It’s Time to Strike the Right Cord

By A Khokar • Apr 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There seems to be lot of confusion regarding Tehrik e Taliban-Pakistan (TTP) and it status. One is amazed to know that how a ‘copy cat’ bunch disguise as Taliban is allowed to operate along our western border especially in Dir and Swat areas– so freely. They are posing, as some medieval colonial provosts is holding [...]



Complete Intelligence Failure

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Mar 31st, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

No laurels for the security forces, though they managed to contain the damage and the casualities remain under 15, but sadly enough it’s a total collapse situation as far as the security arrangements are concerned in the major cities of Pakistan. To add insult to injury, after every such tragedy, we come to know from [...]



Swat Deal: Government’s Surrender to Militants or to Popular Demand ?

By Mohsin Sehgal • Feb 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The peace talks between Maulana Sufi Mohammad, Chief of the Tanzim Nifaz Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Maulana Fazlullah for the restoration of peace in Swat are one thing, while the looming doubts over the sudden peace efforts and the durability of it is another.
That is like forcing people to accept peace [...]