Last time as televised in this Aljazeera special with Omar Rageh...Gen. Tariq's troops had to beat a hasty retreat with all their tanks and gunships between their tails, all in front of the global audience, exacting a fair bit of embarrassment on the part of their paymasters, Adm. Mullen et al...
I hope for the sake of Gen. Tariq's poor minions, the foot soldiers, he and his hired mercenaries don't repeat the performance of a few months ago...
Pakistan army is not trained or equipped for irregular warfare, but what matters is the end result here, not their (many) missteps. Also, this is not a popularity contest or battle of egos, something the talibs will never understand.
Maulvi Umer, the great Taliban sister and spokesmen had said that she would rather die then let Taliban lose control of Loesam in Bajaur. Loesam today is in Pakistani control and Maulvi Umer is alive and so traumatized that she has not come out of hiding since that time.