Islamic State Declared In Waziristan

After taking control of the entire North Waziristan province of Pakistan, Taliban and Al-Qaeda have recently declared the establishment of an 'Islamic State' in the area and gained a major base for their operations against the US-led forces in Afghanistan according to wire reports. By taking control of virtually all of Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area on the border with Afghanistan, the Taliban have gained a significant base from which to wage attacks against US forces and their collaborators in Afghanistan.

The Asia Times said Taliban planted bombs along the routes used by Pakistani security forces and "virtually every day one or two vehicles are blown up. This measure is aimed at keeping security forces away from the actual tribal areas of Waziristan" the report stated.

The report said its correspondent had videos released by the Taliban and claimed the writ of the Pakistani political agent or the central government's representative "barely extends beyond Miranshah Bazar and Wana Bazar where the official headquarters are located." The footage is said to shows Taliban bases where thousands of youths are present preparing for attack in Afghanistan and includes the "official announcement of the establishment of an Islamic state in Waziristan (including the tribal areas of South Waziristan and a declaration of the Taliban's rule in North Waziristan".

"This announcement of an Islamic state is interpreted as a prelude to the Taliban's summer offensive, precisely at a time when Iran's nuclear dossier will be submitted to the UN Security Council and both Europe and the US will be mounting pressure on Tehran to abandon its nuclear program," the report stated

Pakistan Army Used Chemical Weapons in Miranshah Operation

bombed by the Pakistan Army, have reported mysterious deaths of their friends and family members --- deaths which they say cannot occur unless a poisonous gas or a bio-weapon was used on a large scale.

Almost 15 to 20 families of various clans of Mahsud Tribes are migrating to Karachi from the war zone every day while innocent Waziri Tribesmen and their families are settling down in Southern Punjab.

Interviews with these displaced families at Sohrab Goth in Karachi, the last stop of the inter-city buses, have revealed a horrible side of the Pakistan Army operation, kept closed to the media and everybody else for weeks.

"After bombing by the Army on Ladha, several local civilians were killed and many more were injured," Gulrez Mahsud, a young tribesman from South Waziristan told this scribe.

“Most of those dead were not hit by any bullet or shell, They were gassed in their homes and other safe places where they thought they would survive the bombing.”

Pictures tell the strory Of opression by Puppet Pakistan army

Pakistan and US does not want to Open their Defeat on Media

The Government is upset with publications such as Nawa-i-Waqt, Ummat, Jasarat, Friday Special, Takbeer, Nida-i-Millat, Islam, which portray the militants as heroes. These publications act as 'unofficial' mouthpieces of the jihadists, and see the hand of India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Mossad and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) behind the events in South Waziristan.

Takbeer [Nov 3] has written that the US, India and Israel are the real masterminds of the incidents in South Waziristan, and that they want the tribal people to rise up against the Army. India, the article claimed, is supplying weapons to the tribal people and the US is very cleverly dividing the two united groups of mujahideen, i.e., the Pakistani Army and the civilian mujahideen [tribal people].

Friday Special [Oct 7, Zafar Mahmood Sheikh] views the lifting of the economic blockade on South Waziristan as a humiliating defeat for the Army. "The relief has been announced to silence the voices of such people who had been protesting the military crackdown in Wana. In fact, the killing in Wana was masterminded by Musharraf on the orders of Bush. The latter wanted it for his election campaign and Musharraf wanted it to protect his uniform."

"The Army is repeating 1971 in Wana. God forbid, Wana may not prove to be another Bangladesh. Bangla Bandhu was first declared as traitor and this time the tribes of Waziristan have been declared terrorists... Wana will prove to be the last nail in the country's coffin if better sense did not prevail on Musharraf. He should stop arranging official visits to Wana and allow independent journalists access to the area. Only then the people of Pakistan will know about the atrocities of Pak army in South Waziristan."

Disagreeing patiently with such views, Sultan claims, "There is no ban on journalists' entry in South Waziristan." However, he insists that journalists should not "expect that ISPR would provide you vehicles or helicopters for your travel."

There is, nevertheless, a growing perception that the military operations are creating a sense of hatred among the tribal people against the Armed Forces. On Saturday night (November 13), at an Iftaar dinner in Rawalpindi, a local MMA leader Hanif Abbasi, told this writer, "The Pak Army is committing state terrorism in South Waziristan, exactly the way the Indian Army is doing the same in Kashmir. It is targeting innocent civilians."

Yusufzai echoes the growing concern: "The military operations have displaced thousands of people in South Waziristan. But the Army does not want it to be reported. The Pashtuns are severely independent people. They never forgive their enemies. The coming generations of the tribal people will be full of hate against the Army and they will take revenge."

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