Benazir Bhutto is smiling down upon your nation. I believe Pakistan will rise above the calamity it is experiencing today. Pakistan will soon get to enjoy the FREEDOM and prosperity Benazir Bhutto had envisioned for her people! Always remember the gansters are more afraid of you. Why you ask? Because the people of Pakistan OUTNUMBER the gangsters ie; the Taliban! There is strength and safety in numbers! So, pull together and take back your country.
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Tide turns against the Taliban
written by By Owen Bennett-Jones
Thursday May 21, 2009 09:27 UK
In Pakistan there has been a real change in the past few months - the public has had enough of the Taliban and the army has gone to war. As a result well over one million people have been forced to flee their homes.
I have come to a place about an hour's drive from Peshawar, 50 miles (80km) from where there has been intense fighting.
There are many people on the move here who have run away from that fighting and they have brought with them eyewitness accounts of the brutal things they have seen under the Taliban's control of the Swat valley over the past few months.
"They were beheading people, they were shooting innocent people without any warning, they were terrifying us," one woman tells me.
"They were stopping our kids from going to school, they were kidnapping young boys."
A man standing nearby is also eager to talk.
"With my own hands I have buried 18 people who were beheaded, even children," he tells me grimly.
"They are not friends, they are not our allies, they're our enemies, they are criminals, they are gangsters."
Such strong public criticism of the Taliban is new - the mood has changed in Pakistan.
Tariq Hyatt Khan is the most senior government official in one of the tribal areas in North West Frontier Province and he tells me that the people of Pakistan have simply had enough of jihadis.
"The people hate them and if you see the letters to the editors of all the major newspapers, the people of Swat are writing and they are thanking the army for intervening in a decisive manner.
"They say 'eliminate them, clear up our area, for God's sake', that is the message that is coming from the local people."
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Tide turns against the Taliban
written by By Owen Bennett-Jones
Thursday May 21, 2009 09:27 UK
In Pakistan there has been a real change in the past few months - the public has had enough of the Taliban and the army has gone to war. As a result well over one million people have been forced to flee their homes.
I have come to a place about an hour's drive from Peshawar, 50 miles (80km) from where there has been intense fighting.
There are many people on the move here who have run away from that fighting and they have brought with them eyewitness accounts of the brutal things they have seen under the Taliban's control of the Swat valley over the past few months.
"They were beheading people, they were shooting innocent people without any warning, they were terrifying us," one woman tells me.
"They were stopping our kids from going to school, they were kidnapping young boys."
A man standing nearby is also eager to talk.
"With my own hands I have buried 18 people who were beheaded, even children," he tells me grimly.
"They are not friends, they are not our allies, they're our enemies, they are criminals, they are gangsters."
Such strong public criticism of the Taliban is new - the mood has changed in Pakistan.
Tariq Hyatt Khan is the most senior government official in one of the tribal areas in North West Frontier Province and he tells me that the people of Pakistan have simply had enough of jihadis.
"The people hate them and if you see the letters to the editors of all the major newspapers, the people of Swat are writing and they are thanking the army for intervening in a decisive manner.
"They say 'eliminate them, clear up our area, for God's sake', that is the message that is coming from the local people."
Please click HERE to read the entire article...
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