Telegraph: Reports that there are thirty thousand refuges from the fighting between the Taliban and the Army of Pakistan in Dir District of Pakistan. It is good that the Government of Pakistan is taking action in Buner District and Dir District but lets hope they are not going in heavy handed. Its a matter of winning the heart of minds of the locals, not of blowing up innocent people. As has been reported the Army of Pakistan has been trained to fight India in a convention war, they have not been trained to fight terrorists, who can fade in to the background. President Obama and UK PM has placed pressure on Pakistan to get moving, to take out the Taliban/Terrorists, but its the UK and the USA with its combat experience in Northern Ireland and Iraq that would be best placed to fight the Taliban in Pakistan. The question is does Obama and Brown have the backbone to send Western troops in to the Swat Valley, Buner and Dir District. If the Army of Pakistan cant push the Taliban out of Pakistan it will hurt the authority of the Government of Pakistan. At the end of the day, the USA and the UK must secure the nuclear arsenal of Pakistan, if need be they might have to send in troops to Islamabad.
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