Re: 58 die in militant-security border clash
How is Imran relevant to all this, he has not been in power during the past 10 years of WOT, and maybe he will not even win the next time? During your beloved Musharraf’s time, on the one side there was a lot of noise/hype about operations but on the other side he allowed them to flourish, Swat and other areas were allowed to fall into the hands of extremists. Its his double dealing/hypocrisy due to which we are in this condition now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/world/asia/18iht-general.4.15396535.html
Its the present regime even if we like it or not which has carried out operations in Swat, Dir, SWA, Mohmand, Orakzai and flushed them out of Buner. Anyways, still I dont see the areas pacified or the threats due to taleban diminished. We have just pushed the taleban into Afghanistan, or other settled areas. The people in Afghanistan can come back to Pakistan whenever they want, and the ones in settled areas are carrying out their attacks else where at a timing of their choice.
If the government is serious they should conduct intelligence based operations and target the leadership of taleban to finish off this fitna once for all. Its not possible to end this war by killing the foot soldiers alone.