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| Afghanistan |
| Paks move commandos to tribal areas |
| 2002-05-11 |
| Pakistan Army has moved its special services force into the tribal areas with the twin objective of catching Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters and complement the US-led coalition forces operating across the border in eastern Afghanistan. Government officials acknowledged that commandos of Special Services Group had been moved into Miranshah, headquarters of the federally-administered North Waziristan Agency, and deployed at a local vocational college to flush out Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters hiding in the border areas with Afghanistan. So we've got a blocking force on the other side of the border now... The SSG are assisted by about a dozen American 'communication experts', the sources said. "The role of the Americans is only to assist our forces. They will not take part in any combat," they insisted. And they're going to be coordinating with the allied forces on the other side. "The troops would act on information, so contrary to speculations we may not see a full-scale operation to catch the Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in our tribal areas," the officials maintained. And they're not going to try and root out the ones that are already there, but to catch any that get chased across the border. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |