Remembering our Martyrs; Praying for our Fighters

Pakistan has lost 3000 troops in our war against the Taliban, which is 3 times American casualties in Afghanistan.

This figure is roughly the same as the 1965 war, twice the number from the 1947 war and almost three times the number we've lost in the Siachen Glacier since 1984. There aren't good estimates of casualties in the Kargil war, but its probably comparable. We only lost significantly more troops in the 1971 war. All of these conflicts, of course, were against India.

Anyway, with our Army now heading into the most famously treacherous hurdle of the war, Waziristan, where we've previously defeated more than once, my prayers and thoughts are with the soldiers fighting, and with those that fought and were martyred.

Here are a couple of video tributes: