A full-scale military operation is underway in Swat. The operation was launched after the peace deal with defunct organization Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (movement for the implementation sharia) collapsed. This organization basically worked as an intermediary between the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the government. The West was quite opposite to the operation. The deal was for implementing shariah only in the Malakand division. As soon as the Nisam-e-Adl Regulation (NAR) was approved by the government, the Taliban openly confessed that they had no intention to contain themselves within the Malakand division. After that they took control of Buner which is only 100 kilometers away from Islamabad.
Now more than 140 Taliban have been killed and more than 1 million people have fled from the Malakand division in the wake of this operation. This is largest number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Pakistan’s history.
Today the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had an emergency cabinet meeting to review the operation. After the meeting he said that Taliban had been caught with an “element of surprise” because they were not expecting such a swift action. “In the past, they attacked and then ran away but this time they have been surrounded,” he added. To learn more about Taliban in Pakistan a very good analysis has been made by Ahmed Rashid. It is given below. I am sure it will make things understandable for us. AA
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