Re: Army and Taleban- on the same side?
Remember Lal Masjid? Remember how some of you were cheering and wanting the Govt to just go in with soldiers, tiff and burn em all inside, who cares if some women and children were hiding inside or being taken hostage? Remember what happened after that? Leave aside the suicide attacks and all, the bitter resentment of the population was evident. Succesfull and invincible politicians like Shiekh Rashid became so unpopular based on their lal masjid stance that they didnt even manage 5K votes in a constituency where he used to bag over 80K votes! This is exactly how this operation is turning out to be.
We have other means to take out 200-300 insurgents rather than going to a full scale war, which can quite possibly result in a full scale civil war and the split of the country. It has happened before too. Despite what you say, these unhappy refugees wont have any praise for the Pak Govt, and their generations to come will have a miserable future thanks to this displacement and will grow up and become future talibs.