Pakistani Army Pushing Back Taliban
The offensive the Pakistani army launched against the Taliban last week seems to be going rather well. The army says that it has killed scores of militants, and that it is slowly taking control of regions it lost to the extremist organization earlier this year.
Pakistani soldiers have nearly cleared Taliban fighters from a district 100 km (60 miles) from the capital in heavy fighting in which the militants have suffered heavy casualties, the military said…
The military said security forces had made “considerable headway” in intense fighting in Buner.
“Most of the area has been cleared … terrorists have suffered heavy casualties,” the military said late on Tuesday.
Emboldened by a February peace pact, Taliban from Swat moved into Buner in early April, clashing with police in a drive to impose hardline rule.
Not only are the Taliban pushed back, polls also show that Pakistanis support the military offensive en masse. Experts believe support will drop once more civilians get caught in or are displaced by the fighting, but, for now, the Taliban finds itself under attack by both the country’s military and its civilian population.
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I’m having trouble taking the news out of Pakistan at face value. It seems awful scripted. There isn’t any mention of civilian or army casualties for one thing. The whole thing seems almost staged to get more aid and technology from the USA.
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