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| Taliban a threat in FR Peshawar despite operation |
| 2010-10-18 |
| [Pak Daily Times] The recent operation in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar FR has started to eliminate Taliban presence in the region, but the operation has left little hope for the locals and those living in Peshawar, as earlier operations had also ended in a similar way and the Taliban had regained control of the area. In answer to an operation by security forces in the Peshawar Frontier Regions (FR), the Taliban are threatening people and warning them against cooperation with the security forces. The locals, on condition of anonymity, said that subordinates of Tariq Afridi, who was leading the Taliban in the Peshawar FR had still been threatening people and warning them against cooperating with the security forces. On September 19, the security forces launched an operation in the area in which more than 52 bully boyz had been killed. Due to fear of the Taliban's return to the area, about 65 percent of the displaced people had been unwilling to return to their homes, saying that the government had yet to establish permanent checkposts. Mohammad Kamran and other locals believe that the Taliban were still alive and had merely beat feet to the nearby hills once the operation began. The forces had claimed killing the Taliban, but the locals claim that they had not seen even one terrorist's dead body. Like other residents of the area, Adezai Peace Lashkar chief Dilawar Khan demanded the government to establish permanent paramilitary checkposts at the Pakha Bareeza area, an entering point for the Taliban from the tribal region, otherwise there would be insecurity all around and the operation would prove to be a futile exercise. Dilawar told Daily Times that though the security operation against the Taliban had been effective, with around 90 Taliban killed, but the forces had once again left the entry points unguarded, from where the Taliban could enter and launch attacks. He said that the government lacked long-term planning to secure the borders along Peshawar. He said that although Frontier Constabulary (FC) platoons had been deployed in the main localities of Peshawar FR, the residents still felt insecure. He alleged that the Taliban were challenging the writ of the state in FR and had been forcing women to wear different types of burqas, which distinguished them according to age and marital status. The chief said the group had also been forcing local girls to marry their fighters and had ordered residents to keep their doors open at night. Musa Khan, an internally displaced person (IDP), living in Peshawar told Daily Times that the Taliban had become very strong in the area. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 JosephM, the Dutch don't wear wooden shoes anymore. That's just a shtick for the tourists. Wooden shoes are what poor people used to wear because they couldn't afford comfortable leather shoes or sneakers. Nowadays even the poor in Holland can afford non-wooden footwear. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-10-18 21:54 |
| #1 Also from DAILY TIMES.PK > TALIBAN WARN DUTCH [Netherlands] AGZ ADOPTING ANTI-ISLAM AGENDA, of MP Geert Wilders. OTOH the good news for the Netherlands is that the Taliban = "A MILITANT GROUP" WHOM MAY, MAY NOT BE THE TALIBS won't attack + behead the Dutch Govt because they hate Dutch TUlips or thier Cheese or their Wooden Shoes or that Chocolate-loving Fat Kid on the Zelder Zee holding back the English Channel wid his finger. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-10-18 20:55 |