I don't think the gov't and the miliary of Pakistan surrendered Swat over to the militants. If you recall, the people of Swat and surrounding areas were so enamored by Radio Mullah's brainwashing, that they allowed these people to infiltrate. It was only when they started making their military force obvious and began abusing women and bombing schools, that the people of swat began to realize what they had allowed in.
When folks were alarmed about movements in the area, no one wanted to go in militarily because it seemed that the Swati's were comfortable with the militant presence. Problem was that they didn't see these people as terrorists, but as a religious movement. They didn't bust out visibly with weapons until later.
Local support is the common spin Pakistani establishment has been putting on all that it has done since inception ...whether the 1948 infiltration of Kashmir with Jehadis, Operation Gibraltor of 1965 (training commondos in Murree and sending them to Kashmir to incite an insurgency), 1999 Kargil episode (the Mujahideen that occupied Kargil Heights turned out to be NLI Northern Light Infantory), or the nuclear proliferation (to North Korea, Libya, and Iran)....
The mistake they made in Swat was that they thought Swat will also turn out to be another Waziristan....Now Swatis along with other Pashtuns, and Pakistanis launched a concerted campaign drawing world's attention to what was happening in Swat....
I think disguising misadventures can no more help Pakistan.