Military officials said that a large number of snuffies from across the border attacked a Pak post situated on Nao Top early in the morning.
Pak troops responding to the attack repulsed it.
Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache...
gunship helicopters were also sent as reinforcement.
During the shootout and
The government had recently closed all illegal entry points on the border with Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Lt-Gen (retd) Asif Yaseen Malik had said.
Today's action came a day after the Shura Mujahideen
Wazoo group, led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur...a member of the Madda Khel clan of the Uthmanzai Waziris. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) political party. Upon the formation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007, he was announced as the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo, but has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with the Mehsuds and disagreements about the TTP's attacks against the Pak state..
, in North Waziristan asked local residents to move to safe locations close to the Afghan border to avoid being caught in crossfire in the event of a military operation in the area.
A pamphlet issued by the group alleged that the government had practically revoked an agreement with them without making any announcement to the effect, by attacking 'innocent people' and destroying property.
"We continued to tolerate this repression but now it has exceeded limits," the pamphlet had alleged.
The pamphlet was distributed after the group met in the wake of air strikes and ground search in Machis Camp near Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
bazaar and Mirali during which, according to the government, over 70 snuffies were killed.
Residents claim that more than 100 people have been killed, many of them civilians.