Pakistani paramilitary maintain a position on a high post in the troubled area of Pakistan Photo: PA From The Telegraph:
The Pakistani military has prepared for house-to-house combat to flush the Taliban from its urban strongholds in the Swat Valley.
Officials revealed on Sunday that elite commando troops had been dropped into parts of Mingora, the regional capital, to undertake advance combat, even as the army lifted a curfew to allow thousands of civilians to flee.
After three days of heavy fighting, thousands of people who had been besieged fled Mingora. They braved roads and terrain where the Taliban has laid mines, dug trenches and positioned gunmen in government buildings.
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My Comment: I am skeptical. They could have done this months ago and avoid this disaster .... but they did not. So .... what has changed?