Army Operation Recovers 80 Cadets in FR Bannu

by MJK on June 2, 2009

A successfuly operation by Pakistan brave military force has resulted in the recovery of 80 students and staff members in the FR Bannu area. The Talibans were taking the students through the Garium area to South Waziristan. I will share my personal knowledge of the terrain for the easy reference of our readers.

The students were coming from Razmak area to Bannu and for this they had to pass through MiranShah, Mirali and then enter FR Bannu area and the finally enter Bannu. They were taken hostage in the FR Bannu area and the famous locality of the area is Bakakhel. Bakakhels are famous for kidnappings and other criminal activities in the past and recently they had to face the wrath of the Bannucis Tribe when they kidnapped a women from the area. The kidnapping of women is the biggest insult to any Pashtun tribe and hence Bakakhels were taught a lesson that they can not easily forget. That is one reason that they released all coaches of students which had female presence in them. Coming back to the topic, FR Bannu area is linked to South Waziristan through the Garium area and it is in this locality that the Army pinpointed for their operation since the involvement of Indian backed militants based in South Waziristan could not be ruled out. Around 80 students have been recovered from the area.

I still wonder about the status of the other 400 students that have been kidnapped? It is also worth mentioning here that the traditionally the militants divide their catch in small groups to avoid easy detection by the security forces and distribute them in various areas of the agencies. In this case, since North Waziristan is abiding to its peace deal, all the students will be surely taken to the South Waziristan area where Baithullah Masood rules supreme.

If government block all the routese to South Waziristan in time, i am sure it will be very difficult for the militants to take out their catch to their safe houses located in South Waziristan. We again feel that all this mess has been created because of the DCO Bannu who should have provided adequate security cover to the students once they entered the FR Bannu area.

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1 Abdul Zahoor Khan 06.02.09 at 7:40 pm

I totally agree with your comments about Bakakhels. Actually to add to what you have said, Bannu City is surrounded by the most notorious areas from three sides, worst among them the FR regions of Bakakhel and Janikhels. They are mostly Wazirs, but somehow unlike other Wazirs, these people seem to harbour sinful genes, and together these two tribes are considered to the most third class, dirty minded, born criminals.
They have been like this for years but I wonder why no one took them seriously. These two tribes need to be taught a lesson which their coming future generations can remember for centuries

2 Khan 06.03.09 at 4:56 am

The government is said to initiate some limited operation against the two tribes. Lets hope it materialize

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