Sunday, June 21, 2009

Pakistan called the time frame for completion of military operations in Swat valley.

Command of the Pakistan Army expects to ten days to complete a military operation against militants the Taliban in the Swat valley. On this June 20, said Associated Press.
As the journalists Colonel General Sayyad Ghani (Sajjad Ghani), commander of the 20 thousandth Division Pakistan Army, operating in the north valley, so far government forces succeeded in seizing the key positions of the Taliban and to take control of key strategic sites region. In the next ten days, said Colonel-General, the active phase of the operation is completed.
Now in the Swat valley have only a minor Taliban factions that can not provide decent resistance to government troops. According to Ghani, the command of the Taliban in disarray, and the remaining fighters to flee.
According to Ghani, in the past one and a half months during the fighting killed about 400 militants the Taliban, but many Taliban leaders escaped to mountainous areas. Since the start of the operation in April have been removed about one and a half thousand Taliban.
The large-scale operation the Pakistani army in the Swat Valley began after the Taliban violated the terms of the cease-fire, which was reached by the parties in February. During the fighting more than two million inhabitants of the valley were forced to flee their homes and move to safer areas in the country.
At the same time, adds the AP, the Pakistani army began to act in a neighboring province - South Vaziristan where, presumably, could find shelter surviving militants.

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