Significant leaders of the Pakistani Taleban have been killed or captured in an onslaught of frontier ground and air attacks, a Pakistani general has told the media.
“The militant command and control centres and their caches have been dismantled or captured,” said Major-General Tariq Khan. He goes as far as to say the Pakistan Taliban no longer exist as a cohesive military force.
Big words from the General and if they are accurate, it has a been a brilliant campaign from the Pakistan military, with 790 Taliban killed since November and hundreds more captured.
The claims come at a time of improved military co-operation between America and Pakistan, in which US drones have killed a number of key Pakistani Taleban commanders, and Pakistani security agents have arrested at least four senior Afghan Taleban leaders over the past month.
Some positive news from that part of the World at last, now if that success can be replicated in Afghanistan, that really would be a reason to be optimistic, our troops may soon be on the way home.
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