War in north waziristan

[Bengal_Tiger]

Anyway we can help any of these 40,000 refugees?

They seem to be in big trouble.

For [MENTION=2]Admin Khan[/MENTION] and any one else in the New York area:






Madiha Tahir on the right. A documentary maker who has raised awareness about the plight of people in Waziristan.

https://www.facebook.com/woundsofwaziristan

This war, this suffering, this bloodshed must end.

I pray that this war ends soon insha'Allah and that also Pashtuns and other Muslims e.g. Balochis gain freedom insha'Allah.

Ameen, thumma ameen.

[Bengal_Tiger]

This war has claimed may be up to 60,000 lives, the vast majority being Pashtuns.

It must end, it absolutely needs to end. People are dying, families are being destroyed.

May this war end soon.

Ameen, thumma ameen.

[Admin Khan]

I'm usually around Lerner Hall, I'll try to visit.

[Bengal_Tiger]

North Waziristan people bearing brunt of prolonged curfew

Pazir Gul


MIRAMSHAH: Thousands of tribal people are stranded in Bannu while more than 500 families have migrated to Khost province of Afghanistan owing to imposition of curfew in North Waziristan Agency.

The political administration of Waziristan Agency imposed curfew in the tribal region on Thursday last when a vehicle of security forces was targeted by an explosive device in Ghulam Khan area. Nine soldiers were killed and several others were injured in the blast.

No militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, however, all the entry and exit points and roads in North Waziristan were closed by the authorities after imposition of curfew and launching a search operation.

On Tuesday, the curfew was lifted for three hours, from 1pm to 4pm, giving a breathing space to the tribal people, who faced severe shortage of edibles and other essential commodities.

The tribal people said that during the last 144 hours, curfew was relaxed only for three hours.

During the search operation, security forces arrested 60 suspected persons in Ghaulam Khan tehsil where the blast took place. The arrested persons were shifted to undisclosed location for interrogation.

Fearing further arrests, more than 500 families from Gorbaz and Saidgi areas of Ghulam Khan tehsil reportedly crossed the border and migrated to Khost province of Afghanistan.

Inayatullah and Abdullah, who migrated to Khost province along with other people, told Dawn by telephone that administration of Khost province decided to give Rs3,000 and ration to each migrated family to help them.

According to reports, 500 vehicles loaded with fruits, vegetables, wheat flour and other daily use items have been stuck on Bannu-Miramshah Road for the last six days. The truckers are not allowed to enter the tribal agency.

“Most of the seasonal fruits and vegetables, being shifted to Waziristan and onward Afghanistan, are getting rotten,” said Rahman Sher, a fruit merchant stranded in Frontier Region of Bannu.

He said that the edibles, loaded on the trucks parked on Bannu-Miramshah Road, began to stink. “Nobody cares that fruits and vegetables worth millions of rupees have lost,” he said and demanded that they should be allowed to unload food items from the trucks.

The passengers including children, women, elderly persons and even patients are also stranded in their vehicles. They wait for lifting of curfew to reach their destination.

Ghulam Ali, a resident of Mirali who along with his family was coming from Punjab, told Dawn by telephone that they were stuck in Bannu and were faced with a difficult situation.

“About 200 vehicles are parked on Miramshah-Ghulam Khan Road for the last six days,” the local people said. They complained of severe shortage of food items and other daily use commodities in the entire North Waziristan tribal region.

They said that all the shops and markets in Miramshah, Mirali and other localities remained closed for the last six days owing to curfew.

The tribal people said that the prices of essential items had increased manifold due to non-supply to the market. They added that available seasonal vegetables and fruits got rotten in the closed shops.

All trade and commercial centres, educational institutions and public and private health facilities have been closed since the imposition of curfew.

The local people said that besides food items, medicines were also short in the tribal region.

The students are the worst sufferers as intermediate examinations are being held in different colleges of the tribal agency but they can’t appear in their examinations. The students said that they missed several papers including that of chemistry, physics, Islamiat and Islamic history etc.

Some of the students were taking their papers in Bannu district and could not reach there owing to curfew. They said their academic year was wasted that will ruin their future.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1106148/north-waziristan-people-bearing-brunt-of-prolonged-curfew

[Zubr-Zubr]

North Waziristan is a heart of South Asia. This territory will never submit to the bloody Islamabad junta. The not islamic Pakistani constitution will never triumph on islamic earth of North and South Waziristan.

[HalloIsBack]

500 Miranshah families migrate to Khost

by Haroon Rahimi on 17 May, 2014 - 18:09 KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): Nearly 500 families from Miranshah, the main town in Pakistan’s tribal region of North Waziristan, have crossed the border into southeastern Khost province due to a strict curfew in the area.
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http://en.shafaqna.com/other-services/other-news-websites/310/25808.html

[Bengal_Tiger]

Pakistan Launches Ground Offensive Against North Waziristan

Helicopters Flatten Homes as Troops Pour Into Area

by Jason Ditz, May 22, 2014


Years of talk about the potential of invading the North Waziristan Agency have come to an end, with the first Pakistani ground offensive against the region in many years beginning today with an attack on the Matchis Refugee Camp.

The camp houses Afghan refugees from the US occupation, and some have been there over a decade. Helicopter gunships moved into the camp, flattening houses, and troops followed close behind.

The US has been pushing for the operation since Obama’s first year in office, but after similar offensives against Orakzai and South Waziristan yielded very little in the way of accomplishments, and saw the targeted militants return almost immediately, there was little appetite to attack North Waziristan, whose tribal leaders don’t have much use for Pakistan’s central government.

The decision on the offensive seems to have been primarily the army’s, and comes in spite of the Sharif government continuing to try to broker a peace deal with Taliban factions there. The attack not only threatens that effort, but could derail a non-aggression pact that has been in place with some tribal
leaders since 2007.

http://news.antiwar.com/2014/05/22/pakistan-launches-ground-offensive-against-north-waziristan/

[Bengal_Tiger]

[Bengal_Tiger]

[Bengal_Tiger]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=467554830014261&set=vb.302037413232671&type=2&theater

INNA LILLAHI WA INNA ILAIHI RAAJIOON

YA RABBI UNSUR AL IKHWAATINA FEEL BILAAD AL-PAKHTUNKHWA, UNSUR HUM MIN AD-DHAALIMEEN.

AMEEN, THUMMA AMEEN WA SALLEE 'ALAA SAYYIDINA MUHAMMAD.

Trans: Oh Lord help our brothers in the land of Pakhtunkhwa, help them against the opressors.

Ameen and ameen and peace be upon our leader Muhammad.


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I almost wanted to cry at seeing some of these pictures. One picture was so graphic I thought people might complain about it so I did not post it here.

The claims of "X and Y number of militants" is just fabricated stories. The Pakistan army is bombing Pashtun villages and civilians are dying.

Nobody is helping these Pashtuns. They are all alone. Nobody in the west, nobody in the so-called "Muslim world" including Bangladesh (where people are ignorant and uneducated and know nothing about a people which included men who protested against atrocities carried out against us in 1971), no protests in Kabul, none in Jalalabad, Kandahar, nothing major in Pekhawar.

I feel so sorry for the people of Waziristan. Betrayed and abandoned.

I feel like crying.

[Toramana]

I feel so sad as well. Thank you for sharing this and thank you for thoughtfulness. An ideal Muslim should be like you that can stand for his own people but can share sorrows of other Muslims and human-beings as well. That is why I like people of Bangladesh and Muslims of South East Asia---peaceful, nationalistic yet proud of their Muslim heritage.

[randolph85]

I feel so sad as well. Thank you for sharing this and thank you for thoughtfulness. An ideal Muslim should be like you that can stand for his own people but can share sorrows of other Muslims and human-beings as well. That is why I like people of Bangladesh and Muslims of South East Asia---peaceful, nationalistic yet proud of their Muslim heritage.

But Muslims who use armed action to avenge these atrocities are extremists to you?

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

I was part of it aswell.

[Smarty]

I was part of it aswell.

Of protests?

[Kushan Prince]

Just disgusting and sick. Pak army will pay for its crimes against Pashtuns in Waziristan.