
A policeman approaches a man entering Dera Ismail Khan from South Waziristan by foot at a check post in Pakistan’s restive North West Province October 18, 2009. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

@TheBilal_Ahmed: “#North waziristan khajuri check post area houses completely destroyed during #ZarBeAzb @TheHaroonRashid @BBCUrdu” April 01, 2015 LINK

@TheBilal_Ahmed: “#North waziristan khajuri check post area houses completely destroyed during #ZarBeAzb @TheHaroonRashid @BBCUrdu” April 01, 2015 LINK

@TheBilal_Ahmed: “#North waziristan khajuri check post area houses completely destroyed during #ZarBeAzb @TheHaroonRashid @BBCUrdu” April 01, 2015 LINK

@TheBilal_Ahmed: “#North waziristan khajuri check post area houses completely destroyed during #ZarBeAzb @TheHaroonRashid @BBCUrdu” April 01, 2015 LINK

Express Tribune: “A file photo of a police check post. PHOTO: PPI”
Jailbreak: Seven check posts set up in DI Khan, Aug 03, 2013

Express Tribune: Security personnel inspect the police checkpoint blown up in the attack. PHOTO: AFP May 14, 2012, Peshawar Ring Road

ET: Woman attacker (C) raises her hand next to a security checkpoint during exchange of fire with Pakistani troops in Quetta. PHOTO: AFP May 20, 2011 Quetta

A Russian peacekeeper is seen at the checkpoint in the village of Khobi, September 8, 2008. Russia

Civilians, fleeing the operation in the North Waziristan, walk towards an army check point in Saidgai. PHOTO: AFP, Express Tribune June 14, 2015

Pakistani soldiers at a checkpoint overlooking Wana, the capital of South Waziristan. Shots were fired when US-led coalition helicopters based in Afghanistan neared the border with Pakistan, officials said Monday, but there were conflicting accounts of the incident. (AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi) Sept 15, 2008 LINK
WAZIRISTAN: A suicide attack was foiled in Spinwam, North Waziristan on Tuesday by security personnel. File photo? Geo June 24, 2014

Anyone entering South Waziristan must register at a military checkpoint. BBC April 15, 2014

People in South Waziristan say new roads have brought more business opportunities. BBC April 15, 2014. #checkpoints #roads

THREAT ALERT, YELLOW: A watchtower at the headquarters of the 9th Division in Wana, South Waziristan, with a newly installed alert-o-meter. Most of the attacks in South Waziristan are now limited to IEDs and not direct assaults on army installations, though a recent ‘complex attack’ on a brigade headquarters in Sararogha lasted for hours. | Wajahat S. Khan embedded story. Dawn Dec 22.2013

THE LAST CHECKPOINT: Ostensibly, Angoor Adda is the last outpost in South Waziristan (which is better patrolled compared to North Waziristan because of the presence of two infantry divisions, the 40th and the 9th. A part of the evolving COIN/CT tactics is ensuring that military patrol vehicles have no obvious army markings, sometimes even non-army colours: Just the Pakistan flag and what the army calls the ‘national slogan’: “God is great”, as is seen on this converted pickup truck used by a Frontier Corps Wing. | Wajahat S. Khan embedded story. Dawn Dec 22.2013