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<b>Taliban waged physical and psychological war’</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->* Subedar who defended Mingora grid station for 20 days says Taliban used fearsome threats, announcements to demoralise troops
By Iqbal Khattak
PESHAWAR: While heading a group safeguarding Mingora’s electricity grid station, non-commissioned officer <b>Subedar Fazal Hameed was engaged on two fronts, psychological and physical warfare.</b>

“They (Taliban) were conducting psychological warfare – making announcements and threatening us,” the Frontier Corps (FC) subedar told Daily Times in an interview after the military honoured him for his bravery.

Peshawar Corps Commander Lt General Masood Aslam announced a reward of Rs 50,000 for Subedar Hameed for defending the grid station against the Taliban for 20 days.

<b>Threats:</b> “We have mined the grid station’s surroundings and the whole area will be reduced to ashes in the next two hours if you (Hameed) do not order your men to surrender,” a Taliban had announced during the fight for the grid station, Hameed said, adding that the Taliban knew well how to scare their opponents with such threats. Given the command of 42 FC soldiers, Subedar Hameed was deployed at the grid station on January 24. He said the situation began deteriorating on May 3 when the Taliban besieged the facility, cutting of all contact with the military and civil authorities. “The Taliban pressurised us both psychologically and militarily. A military officer told me not to heed the Taliban’s threats and give them a good fight. Those words boosted my morale and that of my jawans as well,” Hameed said. The subedar said the Taliban grew more vengeful when he offered shelter to policemen from the nearby Rahimabad police station at the grid station. “We demand you hand over the cops,” Hameed recalled the Taliban warnings. “We will cut you in pieces if you continue to defy the Taliban.” The prolonged Taliban siege had also strained the food and ammunition supplies of Hameed’s platoon. “We had to ration out food carefully since more supplies were not coming in. At one time, we even ran out of drinking water,” the soldier said. His fears were finally allayed when the military fought off the Taliban and retook control of the facility on May 24.
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Same they are doing in J&K