Your Article is based "mostly on hearsay especially talked on the Television, your fears of a devastating fall back is what we hear every day from so many sources but these apprehensions are uttered by those who do not understand real tactics adopted by the Military in this operation,Army has wiped out major bases of Terrorists from where they were carrying out anti-Sate activities most of their Commanders & their supporters have been killed and some might have fled to Afghanistan,just Salt and peper remains which is being mopped out and soon the Media will be allowed to visit to see for itself,at least this is what I gather from the events, this also means thei Terrorists nerve Centers are being destroyed,they are shattered and have been rendered very weak without firm Leadership,no base and in short they are on the run.As for hitting them across the Country its being done in Karachi with an Iron hand and across the Country with the help of Intelligence Agencies in shape of targeted operations. This is,perhaps,the best tactics and once the Military secure the Western borders and mops up all over we shall breathe in peace, the difference is quite evident as the activities of Terrorists are diminishing & their scale has shortened considerably. Pakistani Armed forces,Sind Police, Rangers posted in Karachi and Police of other provinces as well as all Intelligence Agencies deserve applause & I salute them.

During interaction with IDPs of North Waziristan , we met an old man named Paye Khan Dawar from Mir Ali. He made a very interesting comment with regard to the operation. saying " First Zia and then Musharraf brought so many guests to our area, The PA would tell our elders to take care of them. Now the new Govt of NS is trying to dislodge them and in the process making us DPs. Luckily Zia is no more there but Musharraf is still alive. We are worried that if Musharraf comes to power again, he will punish us again for not taking care of his guests"

@ Arif Aslam Khan Your comments seem like an ISPR release! No doubt the operation in NWA was important but the issue of militancy wont be resolved till the time there is a paradigm shift in Rawalpindi and Aabpara. The use of religious rhetoric to stoke passions for real and imagined enemies has obviously backfired. The state patrognage for religious rhetoric should stop. This would not mean that Pakistan would stop being a Muslim country and this may not even right away eliminate religious extremism but what it would entail is that the law can be brought in to act against any one violating the law whatever sect or group. Even in US groups like Ku Klux Klan exist which harbour extremist views but beyond airing their extremism they do not move to any actual acts as they know that law would come out against them without exception. What should be the changed narrative then in the absence of religious war drums. It should be economic development, educational development, development of sports capabilities and social and cultural entertainments.