's Tirah Valley on Saturday.According to security sources, military jets and helicopters targeted murderous Moslem hideouts in Tirah Valley's Kokikhel area.
Twelve bully boyz were killed and eight others were reportedly injured in the air sorties which destroyed targeted hard boy hideouts.
Khyber is one of Pakistain's seven semi-autonomous regions governed by tribal laws and lies near the Afghan border. The Tirah Valley in the region is home to bully boyz from the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and an allied group called Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver....
The
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
's Army Public School.
The Peshawar incident came months after the army launched Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
, a grand operation in the North
Wazoo tribal region, following a Taliban-claimed attack on the Jinnah International Airport in Bloody Karachi...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Since the beginning of Zarb-e-Azb, bully boyz have fled to other tribal regions, including to Khyber and its Tirah Valley that borders Afghanistan. They appear to be moving across the border and seem to operate from both sides of the Durand Line.
| About that. I realize I am completely unqualified to advise The Army of the Pure on military strategy and tactics, but it nonetheless seems to me all this would be much more effective if you added an anvil to that hammer. |