Deemed or designed to mount counter-insurgency offensive, the army action has kindled a conflagration with disastrous ramifications. Already over three million Pakistanis have been turned IDPs in their own homeland. The uprooted people passing through trials and tribulations shall not have Talibans as the scourge to grouse and grind, but that their fallout shall encompass the expedient army action set in motion by a thoroughly imbecile and insipid govt. The wrenching violence at Swat and Malakand was not the tame affair army hoped to march through with least resistance. The Western media, under army escort, were driven through the war ravaged theater and have chronicled their eyewitness accounts of wreckage and destruction strewn all over Swat and Malakand the grisly details of which could move even the stone-hearted people.
An unwilling Pakistan was cunningly or coercively drafted into WoT - a sordid scheme of the Judo-Christian conspiracy to weaken Muslim Ummah by sinister "Divide and destroy" strategy. Casualties are inevitable in any war. But it is evident that those directing the conflict from Western capitals are not the ones whose societies are bearing the greatest brunt. That price is paid by ordinary Afghans and Pakistanis. If the statistics provided by ISPR is to be credited as trustworthy, there are over 3000 troops and over 7000 Talibans have been the casualties so far - a tally of 10000 Muslims dying unnecessarily and uselessly. This does not include the victims of barbaric UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles carrying missiles - often laced with white phosphorous) attacks that have killed 800 plus tribal among whom only 14 were high value targets.