A SECRET CANYON AND DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY'S HIDE OUT at wazirastan|EP 16 :buried hate n born love- a novel

 Anza waited till the last nights of moon. She took the round of town and came exactly at the back side of Shama Jan’s house on other edge of the rock. It was too dark all around. Almost all people in the town were in deep sleep. Only the barking of dogs or howling of wild fox could be heard from far. Now she was outside the town in deep silence. She could clearly see the spot of light from high hanging lantern from a window of one house. And now she exactly knew the location of that indicator. She moved forward to mark the way when she heard a sudden voice at back of her,

‘Who is there?’ A scorching beam of torch light scared her for a while.

‘I went to see a patient but I lost my way but why are you here?’ Anza recognized Hidyatullah’s voice at once. He was looking worried. A young boy was also with him.

‘My mother is not at home again. I’m looking for her. Be careful, it looks that all snakes of area has come out tonight,’ he saw around carefully and continued, ‘he’ll drop you to your quarter.’ Hidyatullah pointed to a boy who was with him.

‘Off course, thank you. I’ll see your mother in morning Insha Allah,’ Anza followed that boy. She felt sad for him, but she couldn’t do take any risk at that time. They were few steps apart from the town, when they saw the army jeeps surrounding the area. The helicopters were roaming above their heads.

‘This is the way to your home,’ that boy pointed towards a narrow street and ran away at one side after looking at the situation……

NOFIL’S ENTRY AND TERMINATION OF TERRORISTS

It was about 3 am when the whole area filled with the echoes of marter bombs and firing of guns. Lights from gunship helicopters were rambling on the barren mountains. Soldiers took their positions and crawled carefully toward the marked target in rocks. It started raining, which made the rocks more slippery to move forward. There was no opposition in start but as soon as the soldiers reached close to their target, heavy firing stopped them suddenly.  Miscreants were looking highly trained and equipped. They had their position among the cracks. They also had to kill the poisonous snakes hissing towards them furiously. 

Anza’s report about the hide out of miscreants among the fissure proved true. Those miscreants fought furiously in start but soon their resistance couldn’t stand against the passionate soldiers. 

pak army at operation in wazirastan

 Like any giant tree with weak roots, which fall at fist blow of wind, the miscreants cleared the way for soldiers. Soldiers were marching a head but still danger was waiting for them. 

A SECRET CANYON
Another wave of opposition started from enemies. Anza took her position at the bottom of large cliff from where she could exactly observe the bright hanging lantern from far. Soon the soldiers reached that secret canyon, which was unnaturally covered with giant stones. Despite putting a lot of pressure, the giant stones were too heavy to move.  Rain water made them slick. 

 Lights from ammunition was mixing with the rain water was presenting horrible panorama.  Anza was firing from a safe place, as no one could recognize her. She changed the bullets, when he came there crawling.

WILL YOU MARRY ME?

‘Hello, how are you doing?’

‘You! Anza looked back in wonder.

‘What are you doing here?’

‘Don't you happy to see me. If you don’t forget, I was also a part of this operation,’ Nofil reminded him.

‘Umm... then concentrate on your work,’ Anza presaged him and positioned her gun.

‘What a coincidence, a hard operation at a time, for which I was waiting for two years? Nofil looked at her.

 They both jumped high at once as a marter shell blast near them.

‘Then, what have you decided about my fate? Nofil again continued in the noise of blast shells and fires.

‘Are you mad? You find this place to talk about this. Any small mistake can cost our lives.’ Anza screamed at him.

‘Watch out,’ Nofil fired at the miscreant, who was approaching towards them.

I had no choice, I couldn’t meet or contact you because of our operation but I’ll not let go this chance. Anza, don’t get worry about my life, I have told you before, and I can live another life just at little hope from you.’ Nofil became too serious.

‘Stay focused” Anza screamed.

‘I’m but you’re not’. Another bomb fell near them and blasted fiercely. Nofil pushed Anza and they rolled down leaving that broken rocks behind.

BILAL IS ALIVE BUT  HE SHOULDN'T BE

‘Are you OK? And by the way your missing friend Bilal is no more missing. He is alive…,’

‘Are you sure about your information? Is he alive? Now Anza was completely attentive to Nofil.

‘Yes, but he shouldn’t be and now he wouldn’t be. I have given all details to Brig. Bakhtiar,’ Nofil answered too seriously.
                     Anza couldn’t understand when they felt a small earth quake.

DESTRUCTION OF THE ENEMY HIDE OUT

 A big plate of rock moved its place suddenly and many soldiers slipped inside the deep rift and it closed in no time.  Gun ship helicopters spotted the place and fired from above but all in vain. The earth was joined together leaving no signs of any cracks.

            Other soldiers moved back from that area hurriedly to avoid some more causality.

‘We have lost 7 of our soldiers’ they got message at wireless.

Firing went brutal from both sides now. It was looking this fight will go long, as it was looking that militants were being multiplied. Rain had stopped, leaving cold wind behind.

                   ‘I know what to do?’ Anza targeted the lantern from gun and hit it. The shattered pieces of lantern flew in the air and stones started to roll down furiously on their heads. That rift opened its mouth again. There was a start of deep tunnel under those rocks, where those seven soldiers were trapped badly. Ropes were thrown down to bring them up safely but where is the control of this movement? Every one was looking for it.

Anza started to climb at one side.

‘Anza, what are you doing?

ANZA’S BRAVE DECISION COSTS THE MAJOR NOFIL’S LIFE

‘Don’t ask, just follow me. We have to reach there as early as possible’ she pointed towards a house at the top of peak.

‘They are operating from there,’ Anza quickly climbed up.

          The route was full of throne bushes and rolling stones,’ she looked at her bleeding knees.

‘There are mines all around here,’ Nofil stopped her.

Anza stopped and observed mines were lying under wild plants and bushes.

           ‘You were right,’ Nofil sat down to un fuse the mines. Anza also helped him.

‘Be careful,’ Anza hold his hand when he was about to cut a wire.

Nofil looked at her and cut the wire. They rolled back and lay on their heads down.

There was not any blast. The mine from that side was defused.

They entered the room from back. There were three people in the room. The so called lame husband of Shama Jan was watching the fight with binoculars. He stood at the side of window. They all were focused at battle field, so they couldn’t see Anza and Nofil coming from back side.

Anza took one man from behind and hit the gun at his head. Nofil fired at two men. Shama Jan’s husband opened the fire on Nofil and he got hit.

‘Nofil,’ Anza screamed and fired at Shama’s husband furiously. Meanwhile he pulled the stand used to hang the lantern. A door opened at one side of the room. There was complete operating system to control their hide out there. He again tried to move those rocks from there but death didn’t give him any time to meet his devilish intentions.

‘Yes, here it is.’

‘I have found the operating system to control the tunnel over here. Please report immediately. I need help. Major Nofil got hit,’ Anza sent wireless message.

Nofil; please don’t let you go. Nofil please open your eyes. Nofil, Nofil…,’ she held his hands in her hands and rubbed.

Nofil opened his eyes for a second and closed them again. His face was veiled with the blood. 

 A BIG ACHIEVEMENT

They found a lever there, which was opening the deep rift from here. A lot of ammunition was stored under those rocks. There was a small factory for making bombs.  That tunnel reached far, near the border and ended at one of the high ways. It also has a small link to repository of Azam khan’s cloth store. Many miscreants were living there secretly and were transporting here and there safely from both sides. This was a very big achievement. 
                    Azam khan and his brothers were facilitators of terrorists. Shama Jan brought the poor children of the town to his husband. She told the parents that their children would learn the electrician work for free but instead her husband trained them to make the bombs and suicide jackets. Trained children were transported to other cities with the help of Azam khan where his brothers help them to hide in their cloth repositories. The operation was thoroughly successful. The enemy had to face great loss. 2 soldiers were martyred and 3 were injured.  
     During her secret patrolling she saw a hanging lantern with bright light at height at specific nights. She couldn’t locate the exact location of that lanterns but she was sure this light must be showing green signal. As Shama’s room was at the top of cliff and it was only visible from backside of town not from front. It was obvious that they chose that place after a detailed survey.

ROLE OF SHAMA JAN AND HIDYATULLAH

 Very smartly, Shama opened the door of Hidyatullah’s house and provoked her mother to run towards the specified area. She gave the excuse that she is following her but actually she transported the trained boys and ammunition from there. No one could suspect a woman to facilitating the terrorists. Many local and foreign terrorists were living under those rocks safely. The venomous snakes were bulged all around to stop people visiting to that area. The rumors about the mountain to be cursed were spread by Shama successfully but the whole network was exposed now. Shama Jan and Azam khan got arrested. Many militants got killed and remaining were injured badly but Hidyatullah ….
                              names and persons in this novel are completely fictional. they have no resemblence to anyone living or dead. 
TO BE CONTINUED