The patriotic Mehsud leaders Qari Zain and Turkistan Bittani have now brought in two other Musud leaders of South Wazirisitan Mullah Nazir and Hafiz Gul Bahadur. We had previously reported that Turkistan had joined Qari Zain now that alliance has been expanded. Using the latest surveillance techniques the Pakistani Law agencies had monitored and taped the calls made by Bait Mehsud. This led to the tracing and tracking many terrorists. This warned the authorities of bomb attacks in Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and some other cities.

Ahmed Mukhtar said that Baitullah Mehsud wanted to create chaos in the country by carrying out suicide attacks and, therefore, the government had decided to hit back.

‘We have a huge network of informers who are after him and the moment his whereabouts are known the forces are going to hit him’, the minister said. Dawn

A war of words erupted in Pakistan’s tribal belt today as pro-government tribal commanders fired verbal salvoes against the embattled Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud while the army pressed ahead with its plans to invade his South Waziristan lair.

Qari Zainuddin, a fellow Mehsud tribesmen who has risen from obscurity in recent months, accused the warlord of being an Indian and Israeli agent. “He is working against Islam,” he told Geo television.

Another commander, Turkistan Bhittani, launched a more fanciful slur – that Baitullah, who has a $5m US government bounty on his head, is in the secret employ of Washington. The UK Guardian

Patriots like Qari Zain have had enough of Bait Mehsud. Pakistanis are sick and tired of RAWs interference. Ismail Khan has written a prodigious report that may change the tide against the culprits. The Mehsuds are stuck between a rock and hard palce in South Waziristan. They cannot move into Afghanistan, and they are being pushed by the Pakistan army. To make matters worse, there is dissension in their ranks. The NWFP-Pakhtunkhwa government has red the Mehsuds the riot act. Comply or face the wrath of the army as never before. Targeting Agent M in the shadow of Yekaterinburg

Retired Brigadier General Mehmood Shah served as a senior official in North West Frontier Province. He says Pakistani troops will have to launch quick, sharp and precise attacks in the area if they hope to prevail.

“Here you are facing a very hardened sort of fighters, who are die-hard,” Shah said. “We are talking about Mehsud area and Baitullah Mehsud. He is in fact the center of everything for the whole Taliban movement in Pakistan and in the tribal area, including Swat. So you are going to have a very, very tough fight.” VOA

Pakistan has imposed blockade on on the mountain hide out of Bait Mehsud, the leader of the TTP. The same tactics of clear and hold will be applied. In draining the swamp care has been taken to making sure the good are separated from the bad and the ugly. To minimize unnecessary civilian deaths and injury the public has been encouraged civilians to flee the area. The ground offensive is in an advanced stage and will not be over ’till Bait Mehsud either goes to his base in the Indian Consulate in Afghanistan or heads out to Somalia or Uzbekistan. he Pakistan Army and the ISI has been developing a militia to eliminate the 10,000 strong Anti-Pakistan force of Bait Mesud. It has been training, arming and supporting a Counter-TTP force under the auspices of Qari Zainuddin Mehsudwho is loyal to Pakistan and against the Anti-Pakistan Bait Mehsud. the army struck Swat and Waziristan when the Indians thought that their proxy in Swat was safe and had an upper hand. The Delhi sponsored TTP overplayed their hand, and tried to move into Buner. This was not acceptable to the Army Brass who had given Bait Mehsud enough rope to hang himself with. The statements of Sufi Muhammad and his live interview was the last straw that broke the camel’s back. The Army moved.

Fresh from its success in Swat, where the Taliban have been driven from the main towns, the Pakistani army hopes to isolate Mehsud in South Waziristan through a combination of military strikes and alliances with friendly tribal commanders.

The newly aggressive approach has won generous praise from a previously sceptical US government. UK Guardian

South Waziristan part of FATA inhabited mainly by the Mehsuds among other tribes. It has a population of 500,000.

‘He (Baitullah Mehsud) is working against the interest of the state of Pakistan and we have to protect our interests at all costs,’ Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar

Dozens of terrorists have already been flushed out under the  Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR). Under the Pakistani constitution the Government relies on the political agent to request the tribe to hand over a wanted person. This is tribal law as it exists in FATA.

All three main roads leading to Mr Mehsud’s territory are blocked in South Waziristan and  only civilians are allowed to leave the area. Tanks has been in total Army control for some time.

Senator Maulana Saleh Shah has been informed and has been instrumental in making sure the tribals understand that the army means business this time.

Bait Mehsud is said to command 3000-10,000 men inlcuding RAW agents, thugs Mossad spies and an assortment of drug dealers and other losers. The Mehsuds of South Waziristan are now facing the brunt of the attack from the Pakistan army. Caught between the Zain Lashkar and the Pakistan Army is implementing the hammer and anvil.  The powerplay in FATA continues.

The Pakistan army has routed the Indian sponsored TTP, cleared the enemy strongholds, eliminated the physical and psychological barriers, shattered the myth of the TTP, demolished the insurgent bunkers, and obliterated their infrastructure. The army did this by surrounding them with an overwhelming force, exposing their nefarious deeds, squeezing their recruitment, “draining the swamp”, sharply curtailing their activities, clearing the area, and asphyxiating their supply lines . The Paksitan Army has done in Swat what the US Army, NATO and and 47 nation coalition ISAF has been unable to do in Afghanistan. NATO has spent the best part of a decade without any results. All Britain and America have done is push the militants across the border into Pakistan. NATO has been unable to hold territory outside Kabul, or clear and hold any significant part of the country. More than 80% of the Afghanistan is still in the control of the “Taliban”.

There are indications, however, that this time the Pakistani army and government are thinking differently about the current offensive. Analyst Khalid Aziz puts it this way: in the past, the army merely wanted to manage the problem of Baitullah Mehsud. Now, it wants to eliminate him.VOA