Up to 30,000 Pakistani troops have been battling Taliban fighters in South Waziristan for the last nine days.

The army said it is making progress, claiming a major victory on Saturday with the capture of Kotkai, the hometown of Hakimullah Mehsud, the Taliban leader.

But many of the 6,000 people who live in Kotkai have been left picking through the rubble that was once their home, long after the Taliban fighters have fled.

Al Jazeera's Imran Khan has this exclusive report from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/10/200910279252871262.html

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Pakistan Airforce: The largest distributor of Indian airforce parts in Asia



Pathankot Strike
8 F-86Fs of No 19 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Sajjad Haider struck Pathankot airfield. With carefully positioned dives and selecting each individual aircraft in their protected pens for their strafing attacks, the strike elements completed a textbook operation against Pathankot. Wing Commander M G Tawab, flying one of the two Sabres as tied escorts overhead, counted 14 wrecks burning on the airfield. Among the aircraft destroyed on the ground were nearly all of the IAFs Soviet-supplied Mig-21s till then received, none of which were seen again during the War.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHlzP69n9c

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PESHAWAR: At least 22 militants were killed in clashes with security forces in the Mohmand and South Waziristan tribal areas on Tuesday.

Eleven militants and two security personnel were killed in the Mohmand tribal region in a gun-battle following an attack by militants on a security check post.

Three soldiers and six militants were also injured during the clashes.

Official sources confirmed that more than 30 militants attacked the Baidani security check post in Mohmands Baizai tehsil.

In South Waziristan, at least 11 suspected militants, including eight foreigners, were killed as security forces retaliated against a militant attack in the region.

Following the attack on the forces, troops pounded a militant hideout and targeted a militants' residence killing all 11 on the spot.

In a separate incident, militants attacked a security vehicle with a remotely controlled bomb, injuring three security men.


http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/04-clashes-mohmand-kill-11-militants-qs-03
In another incident, militants attacked a security forces vehicle in the Khazina area of the Safi tehsil injuring three personnel.

Meanwhile, in North Waziristans Razmak, unidentified men attacked a security forces' camp with eight rockets, official sources said. No casualties were reported, they added. DawnNews

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Pakistan Airforce: The largest distributor of Indian airforce parts in Asia



Pathankot Strike
8 F-86Fs of No 19 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Sajjad Haider struck Pathankot airfield. With carefully positioned dives and selecting each individual aircraft in their protected pens for their strafing attacks, the strike elements completed a textbook operation against Pathankot. Wing Commander M G Tawab, flying one of the two Sabres as tied escorts overhead, counted 14 wrecks burning on the airfield. Among the aircraft destroyed on the ground were nearly all of the IAFs Soviet-supplied Mig-21s till then received, none of which were seen again during the War.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHlzP69n9c

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Pakistan Airforce: The largest distributor of Indian airforce parts in Asia



Pathankot Strike
8 F-86Fs of No 19 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Sajjad Haider struck Pathankot airfield. With carefully positioned dives and selecting each individual aircraft in their protected pens for their strafing attacks, the strike elements completed a textbook operation against Pathankot. Wing Commander M G Tawab, flying one of the two Sabres as tied escorts overhead, counted 14 wrecks burning on the airfield. Among the aircraft destroyed on the ground were nearly all of the IAFs Soviet-supplied Mig-21s till then received, none of which were seen again during the War.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHlzP69n9c

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It would be good for you to provide us with informed opinions, it is a subject interesting more than Pakistanese alone.

Thanks.

Thunder Supports Rafale

http://rafale.freeforums.org
http://rafale.freeforums.org/rafale-vs-f-16-aerodynamics-compared-t69.html

The pakis had claimed to have captured Koktai last week too. The talibs retook it the next day. Take whatever the pakis say with a grain of salt. They are an army trained to fight conventional wars, this will destroy them.


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Tu dhoop hain jham se bikhar
Tu hai nadee o bekhabar
Beh chal kahin ud chal kahin
Dil khush jahan teri toh manzil hai wahin.

congrats to pakis for reoccupying  a part of their own country  

SURRENDER OF PAKI ARMY IN 1971
1N 1971 A NEW HISTORY AS WELL AS A NEW NATION WAS CREATED BY WE THE INDIANS..

@woontness

as usual dont know what u r talking about... all units since Bajur ops have gone under 3 months urban combat training before being allowed into the theatre

@thunder

what opinions are u refering to?

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Pakistan Airforce: The largest distributor of Indian airforce parts in Asia



Pathankot Strike
8 F-86Fs of No 19 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Sajjad Haider struck Pathankot airfield. With carefully positioned dives and selecting each individual aircraft in their protected pens for their strafing attacks, the strike elements completed a textbook operation against Pathankot. Wing Commander M G Tawab, flying one of the two Sabres as tied escorts overhead, counted 14 wrecks burning on the airfield. Among the aircraft destroyed on the ground were nearly all of the IAFs Soviet-supplied Mig-21s till then received, none of which were seen again during the War.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHlzP69n9c

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