Pakistan launches offensive against Taliban near Peshawar

Sunday 29th June, 06:48 AM JST

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easychord2 at 11:59 AM JST - 29th June

Yeah right.

I'm sure the "offensive" went like this.

-A couple of soldiers walk up to some farmers: Soldier: Hey you guys seen Bin Laden? Farmers: No sir. Soldier: Okay then, you fellas have a good day.
SuperLib at 12:27 PM JST - 29th June

The soldiers aren't searching for Bin Laden. They're fighting the Pakistani Taliban for control of Northwest Pakistan after peace agreements failed.
sageb1 at 12:55 PM JST - 29th June

This show of force is to make Pakistan look good!
WilliB at 01:43 PM JST - 29th June

SuperLib:

" "The soldiers aren't searching for Bin Laden. They're fighting the Pakistani Taliban" "

Yeah right. I am sure they are fighting the Pakistani Taliban very enthusiastically. And I have a bridge in Brookly for sale.
adaydream at 01:54 PM JST - 29th June

The Pakistani forces never found the Taliban. With reports like:

’’There has been no resistance, so far. No casualties, so far,’’

Or the Taliban is just waiting to kick some ass. They didn't run. If they control the area, they wouldn't be running so quickly. < :-)
rjd_jr at 03:11 PM JST - 29th June

Wait, no mention of the obligatory "with the backing of the U.S." or "U.S. military strikes?"

Obviously this "operation" is probably more along the likes of what easychord is alluding to.
SuperLib at 01:35 AM JST - 30th June

WilliB, Pakistan has 2 fronts regarding the Taliban. One is assisting the US in capturing Bin Laden. Another if fighting the Taliban for control of parts of Pakistan. Sometimes those two goals are aligned, sometimes they are not. But the fact remains there is a difference.
WilliB at 02:05 AM JST - 30th June

SuperLib,

Your saying so does not make it so. Musharraf was less then enthusiastic in taking on the islamic radicals, and the successor government will be even less so. And the Taliban, lest you forget, was and is assisted and financed from Pakistan.
SuperLib at 03:12 AM JST - 30th June

WilliB,

Your saying so does not make it so. We can trade that sentence at the beginning of every post or we can just remove it from the table. I'll follow your lead.

easychord2 linked the offensive with finding Osama Bin Laden. I chimed in and said that the offensive isn't liked with OBL, it's an internal war within Pakistan.

I'm not really sure what your point is.