Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik today claimed that 700 militants have been killed in the past four days of military offensives in and around the Swat Valley. Yesterday the military said it had killed 200 in one 24 hour period. The tolls and the success being touted by the government in its attacks could not be independently confirmed because the military has barred journalists from the valley.
The final number will doubtlessly rise, as President Asif Ali Zardari estimated around 3,000 members of the assorted factions in the valley, while the army has said it is more like 4,000 to 5,000. Whatever the case, Malik reiterated the promise of President Zardari that all of them would be killed in the end.
As usual, the government did not comment on the civilian toll, but reports continue to trickle in from refugees that the indiscriminate shelling of residential neighborhoods has produced a significant toll. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled the violence, a number which would doubtlessly be higher if they could flee whenever they wanted, instead of just on those occasions when the military decides to lift the curfew for a few hours. Still, the United Nations says over 360,000 have fled in the past week – on top of the 500,000 already displaced from previous offensives. The number seems bound to continue to rise.
At this rate of killing, the Swat fighters will be wiped out inside of two weeks. To think America has been fighting them for 8 years . How incompetent they must be. Exagerated numbers are wonderful and of course not a single Pakistani sodier was killed, righ? **pulls toungue out of cheek**
mr.tddly is 100 percent accurate.The pak government will keep on making funny about the cqsualties of taliban.Its total exageration of the.Can someone ask a question that why farthey waited for few thousands Taliban to take strategic hill tops,making it highly difficult for the army personnel to take over again.The crux of the matter is that it has been done intentionally to push the resident out of entire Swat.Then it will be handedover Agha Khan Karim to convert it to the first indepent country for his followers known as Ismailis or Agha khanis who will covert Swat into swiss like tourist resort for which agha karim has no dearth of money.God bless few millions Swatis to be lucky if it doesnt happen and their father land is retuned to the.Its another intrigue in world compareable to the creation of Israel.World be ware!
SWAT CONNECTION is like salzberg connection which gave the world the world jewish country,whose has yet to be legitimised.I can write a long article in defence of my theory that through a planned inventory,the fake Talibans,who in fact are hired mercenries to create a situation the local resident,majority of the are poor and live meager income from agricultural farming animal heards.They have litterly thrown out of their native,which was occupied by their ancestors for centuries.They have been treated worst than the Red Indians of Americas.If the editor this highly acclaimed desires then I can write more detailed article on this human tragedy of the new century.You will agree that each new century has unfolded a new tragedy for the defenceless creatures called human beings to live in total disarry and destitute for ever thereafter.