Posted on 06/08/2019 4:40:41 PM PDT by Jyotishi
For more than a decade Pakistan has kept Waziristan under tightly regulated travel restrictions
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in Pakistan's long battle with militants as part of the post-9/11 "war on terror". Evidence of murder and torture by soldiers and insurgents is emerging only now. The BBC has gained rare access to some of the victims.
It was early in 2014 when TV news networks trumpeted a major victory in the war against the Pakistani Taliban - the killing of one of the group's most senior commanders in a night-time air raid.
Adnan Rasheed and up to five members of his family were reported to have died in the strikes in the North Waziristan tribal area, near the Afghan border.
Rasheed, a former Pakistan Air Force technician, was well-known. He had written an extraordinary letter to Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl and activist shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in 2012, attempting to justify why it had happened. He'd also been in prison for trying to assassinate former President Pervez Musharraf - until he broke out.
Now it appeared that his luck had run out.
Quoting security officials, news channels reported on 22 January 2014 that Adnan Rasheed's hideout had been targeted two nights earlier in the Hamzoni area.
Waziristan and other parts of the vast mountainous tribal region have been controlled and locked-down by the Pakistani military since the US invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11, which saw Taliban fighters, al-Qaeda jihadists and other militants flee over the porous border.
Outsiders, including journalists, cannot get in - so verifying claims from the security forces is extremely difficult. Those who have reported stories from Waziristan that don't reflect well on the military have found themselves punished.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Yawn. Reads like a typical BBC “oh my god” piece. Totally on the side of the poor oppressed “freedom fighters” who gave sanctuary to those who brought us the wonderful peace loving crowd of some people who did something.
Thank you.
There is a large portion of the Left that insists we fight wars as if they were everyday police actions in a civilized population.
They suffer from an excess of empathy.
They suffer from an excess of empathy.
Not exactly. They are psychologically committed to any person or group who is in anyway connected with those who are sworn enemies of the US. They just want our enemies to win so the US will be eventually defeated and/or transformed.
I finally figured out that the vast majority of ‘peace demonstrators’ during the Viet Nam war wanted peace by having the North Vietnamese triumph and the US defeated. They were not pacifists but either communist fellow travelers, cowards, or fools and dupes.
Beware always of ‘peace demonstrators’.
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