TALIBAN PRIDE: Admiring a job well done – 12 severed heads of Pakistani soldiers

This sickening image shows armed Taliban militants standing over decapitated heads which they claim belong to soldiers they killed in clashes on the Pakistan border.

UK DAILY MAIL  The Pakistani Taliban released a video showing what appeared to be the severed heads of a dozen soldiers today as security officials said 15 troops were missing following fighting with insurgents. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Sirajud Din sent AFP a video showing a militant commander posing with 12 heads arranged on the ground which he claimed were from soldiers they had killed.

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The video showed belongings from the dead men laid out on a sheet, including Pakistani identity cards, camouflage pattern helmets, Pakistani currency, mobile phones and bank cards. Military sources have so far not said whether they are the missing soldiers or confirmed that those shown in the video are Pakistani troops.

The clashes on Tuesday came as part of a Pakistan army operation to repel Taliban militants who had crossed over from Kunar province in Afghanistan last Friday and occupied the village of Batwar in the Bajaur tribal district.

‘At least 15 of our soldiers are still missing,’ a senior security official told AFP. Another security official said ‘more or less’ that many soldiers were missing but declined to give the exact total.’Praise be to God that the mujahideen in Bajaur agency have managed to kill the infidel soldiers of Pakistan,’ he says.

‘Many of them were killed by bullets, 12 of them as you see have been beheaded, you see 12 heads here, and more heads are on the way.’ The commander, his face unmasked and wearing traditional tribal dress, is flanked in the footage by around a dozen armed men including one wielding a huge axe.