Photo: A Pakistani soldier patrols in Mardan district on May 16. AFPPakistan To Attack Taliban In Bin Laden’s Lair -- Times Online
PAKISTAN is to extend its war on the Taliban beyond Swat into the fiercely independent tribal areas bordering Afghanistan where Osama Bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda leadership are believed to be hiding.
“We’re going to go into Waziristan, all these regions, with army operations,” President Asif Ali Zardari told The Sunday Times in an interview. “Swat is just the start. It’s a larger war to fight.”
He said Pakistan would need billions of pounds in military assistance and aid for up to 1.7m refugees, the biggest movement of people since the country’s split from India in 1947.
To help take on the militants, the Pakistan army is for the first time to accept counterinsurgency training from British and American troops on its own soil.
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My Comment: As long as the Taliban has safe havens, they will always be a threat to the Pakistani Government and its people. I am still doubtful that the Pakistani Government will enter the tribal regions ... they have entered before and suffered heavy casualties as a result .... but to be successful in this fight the Pakistani Government will have no choice but to carry on the fight into these enclaves. The Pakistan President is asking for assistance .... I am sure that we will give it to him, but we will have to watch where that assistance will go.