Fata MPs Call for End to Army Action (Pak. Afg. Border)

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http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en41325&F_catID=sd&f_type=source

ISLAMABAD, Oct 10: Four MNAs of Fata on
Friday flayed the military operations in the
tribal belt against what they termed the
so-called Taliban and Al-Qaeda remnants and
warned of an armed uprising against the
government if the action was not called off
forthwith.

Maulana Abdul Malik, Sahibzada Haroonur Rashid,
Maulana Mohammad Sadiq and Maulana Nek Zaman from
Waziristan, Bajaur and Mohmand agencies, told a
news conference of the combined opposition
parliamentary parties at the Parliament House
that the government had launched the operation
knowing very well that there were neither any
Taliban nor Al-Qaeda members in the areas.

The four lawmakers, who belong to the Muttahida
Majlis-i-Amal, asked the combined opposition to
join in with their just stand that the military
action in their areas was violative of the
constitutional provisions, which could force the
tribesmen to retaliate.

They told the press conference that no one had
ever dared to snatch away an inch of our land all
these years as we had taken the responsibility
for the defence of porous borders spreading over
seven agencies. Those killed in these operations
were either locals or some Afghan refugees, but
none of them was foreigner or Taliban, they
claimed.


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1. Crackdown extended to more tribes

http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en41328&F_catID=13&f_type=source&day=0


PESHAWAR: Pakistan on Friday extended a
crackdown on tribesmen accused of sheltering
Taliban and al-Qaeda sympathisers on the Afghan
border, arresting another 10 people.

Today, provincial authorities started seizing
vehicles, sealing shops and arresting members of
two more Pashtun tribes who have been asked to
surrender 12 men on suspicion they had been
harbouring Taliban or al-Qaeda militants. The
action follows a similar operation against
another tribe that had been asked by the
authorities to hand over three tribesmen for the
same offence.

Islamabad has come under increasing pressure from
the United States to seal its border and prevent
Taliban militants using Pakistan as a base for
attacks on Afghanistan. The government and
military officials from Afghanistan, the United
States and Pakistan met in Rawalpindi to discuss
cooperation in operations in the border area.

Afghan foreign ministry spokesman Omar Samad, who
attended the meeting, told reporters in Kabul
that his government welcomed Pakistan’s latest
operations, and both the Afghan and American
sides had offered to cooperate.

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2. Oh good.

We have waited long enough. Let's have a civil war.