{"id":57222,"date":"2014-12-20T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57222"},"modified":"2014-12-19T17:48:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T22:48:45","slug":"pakistan-kills-77-taliban-in-retribution-for-school-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57222","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan kills 77 Taliban in retribution for school massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan blames Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), one of the local Taliban bands, for the killing of nearly 150 folks, mostly students, earlier this week. So they went and killed bunch of those fellows yesterday in the northwestern tribal areas near Afghanistan, according to Stars & Stripes<\/a>; <\/p>\n

The [Pakistani] military said its ground forces late Thursday killed 10 militants while airstrikes killed another 17, including an Uzbek commander. Another 32 alleged terrorists were killed by security forces in an ambush in Tirah valley in Khyber on Friday as they headed toward the Afghan border, the military said.<\/p>\n

On Friday morning, troops killed 18 more militants during a “cordon and search operation” in Khyber, the military said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They seem to be taking a stand against terrorism. Maybe a bit too late, though. Earlier this month, the Pakistanis were demanding that the the US release from Balad prison, the second in command of TTP, Latif Mehsud, and of course, because we want everyone to like us these days, we released Mehsud to the Pakistanis, they, in turn, set him free<\/a>. Mehsud paid the Pakistani government back with the raid on the school. <\/p>\n

Before his capture, late last year, Latif Mehsud was second in command to Hakimullah Mehsud who was killed in a drone strike a month after Latif’s capture by Afghan troops when he was taking a stroll on his way to buy weapons. So I guess it didn’t take him long to get back into the swing of things around TTP, did it?<\/p>\n

Before the massacre, the release of the terror leader was touted as proof of improving relations between Pakistan, Afghanistan and the US. Yup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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