Meengla
Elite Member
DO, that photo is misleading. Those troops are not "captured". Its just a detachment Gen Musa is inspecting.
My father fought in the Bajaur conflict. The reality of the Afghans on the other side was absolutely rag-tag militia who used to try to raid Pakistani positions through harassing fire and would get decimated in the process because of our artillery fire. Their motivation to attack Pakistani troops was equally stone-age. The captured ones (wearing torn-up Shalwar Kameez, bare foot/sandals) would tell our officers that they were told by their leaders that Pakistani "daal khorrs" were cowards and would run leaving all their equipment behind.
Firstly, to note, long before the Americans/General Musharraf/the Establishment blah blah excuses were involved, as you responded to something that happened in the 1950s, the Afghans were launching attacks into Pakistan. So the dishonest, disingeneous, disrespectful supporters of a certain political 'party' of Pakistan need to note that very important point. Would they?? Or they believe what their Messiah Khan had said 'We are killing our own for American Dollars' a quarter century ago?
Secondly, as you post says, they were 'rag tag' even 6-7 decades ago and they were always rag tags until some foreign power gave them the weapons. Some Warriors of the Graveyard of Empires, my a$$!! They are only the Experts in Suicide Bombing!
This is the main page of Dawn.com right now. So it has begun! And notice the anarchists of a certain political 'party'.






