Civil War: Pakstn: WaPo's Pamela Constable and Haq Nawaz Khan report 'Great Fear, Great Rage' in Pakistan

the militants agreed to disarm if sharia courts were made the exclusive form of justice in Swat.

According to reporters Constable and Khan (May7,2k9), the militants are Taliban armed forces the forward units of whom are holded-up in several emerald mines. More, they "looted three banks and occupied police and civil administration buildings in Mingora. The military reported that an additional 50 militants had been killed in Bruner" [another NorthWest terrritory of Pakistan, an active operation of the Taliban but outside their main thrust in Swat; Bruner has numerous Sufi-mystics shrines that the oncoming Talibani will have to destroy as anti-Wahabbist in the extreme; Sufi Islam is not immune from the barbarian fanatics of the Taliban].

The United Nations humanitarian office in Islamabad said it has already registered more than 2,200 families in new camps, "many of them arriving with little more than the clothes they are wearing." In a statement, the office said it would also increase assistance to help about 6,000 additional families in existing camps for Afghan refugees.

This area of Pakistan, in two territories of the NorthWest, Swat and Buner, is the area at which the jihadist eruptions in several countries over the last some years are now again cresting into a frenzy of violent activity of the kind that constitutes a "civil war" where civility is being uprooted and refugeed . To establish a fair electoral system, and a shelf of ordinary r+ts, the parliamentary government must pursue the Taliban and ... and ... what?...destroy them?

Re-educate? What of the wives and children? And the worst of them ... re-develop Guantanomo to receive new "enemy combatants" ?

While the provinces of Swat and Buner are geopolitically strategic for the parliamentary govt, nearby in Islamabad, the Pakistan territories of Waziristan

R+t now (May12,2k9), UN Ambassador John Bolton (under Prez Bush II) is talking on TV (FoxNews, Greta's On the Record show) about the situation in Pakistan, adding his analysis that the Taliban / Al Quaeda axis in Afghanistan and now most especially in Pakistan, this axis now dominates in Pakistan's Intelligence Corps (which is a part of the Army and has a lot of clout among the non-Intel regulars, among whom conversions to Sunni Wahabbi Talibani Islam and its warriors is a small noticeable trend, apparently. Bolton painted a scenario where a whole section of the Army breaks off, not to disarm, but to f+t in alliance with Taliban / Al Quaeda against the Pakistan parliamentary government and its governing coalition of parties and its Prez Asif Ali Zardari. It's best hope for an eventual democratic peace.

By the way, Zardari ... "insisted that his country's nuclear arsenal is 'definitely safe,' despite growing concerns about recent gains by the Taliban along the country's border with Afghanistan, reports CNN (May6.2k9).

The Tribal Areas comprise seven Agencies, namely Khyber, Kurram, Bajaur, Mohmand, Orakzai, North and South areas of Waziristan and six FRs (Frontier Regions) namely FR Peshawar, FR Kohat, FR Tank, FR Banuu, FR Lakki and FR Dera Ismail Khan. The main towns include Miranshah, Razmak, Bajaur, Darra Bazzar, Ghalanai as Head Quareters of Mohmand Agency and Wana.

The 7 tribal areas lie in a north-to-south strip that is adjacent to the west side of the 6 frontier regions, which also lie in a north-to-south strip. The areas within each of those 2 regions are geographically arranged in a sequence from north to south.

The geographical arrangement of the 7 tribal areas in order from north to south is: Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, Orakzai, Kurram, North Waziristan, South Waziristan. The geographical arrangement of the 6 frontier regions in order from north to south is: Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Tank, Dera Ismael Khan.

About 3.5 million people live in the 7 tribal areas and 6 frontier regions.

-- Politicarp