Re: Areas are breaking away?
maybe the action people want teh govt t take in this 'peaceful' action is to acquiesce to the militants and enforce militants tjeir version of shariah..and u know what..if these ppl were elders of these areas and thats what they wanted, as long as it was nto goign counter to Pakistani laws, that would be fine, but remember this all started with ppl engaging in cross border attacks and harboring terrorists, tribal elders were kileld by these ppl not the military, the militants killed em to take over.
if they stop sheltering goriegn terrorists, and allowing them to, or joining them in their corss border attacks, then there is no real reason for anyone to try and drag them out of their stone age.
You cannot control what's going on outside of your borders. Only what's going on inside. They had the entire border being watched by the military, so how did the insurgents get inside the NWFP border and start overthrowing the daada-abbas of stone age rule (village tribal leaders)?
This is not a simple, "ok, i'm taking over your village crap" - this happened gradually over time and there were lots of variables.