Taliban and Pakistan officials agree permanent ceasefire in Swat valley

The Guardian by Jason Burke | Feb. 21, 2009 (News Report)

Western governments, and many Pakistanis, have been alarmed by the provincial government's offer to reinstate Islamic sharia law in Malakand if the Taliban agreed to peace. Full Story »

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 by Peter L. Combs - Feb. 21, 2009

Nicely presented look at Pakistan's appeasement of terroism. Names names, and offers the evolving background within the country. Points out that the world Bank will be funding roads and infastructure to helps fight the folks they've just turned part of the country over to, this presents a strange contradiction....

It didn;t work for CHamberlain from the UK in WWII and its less likely to work here with people who think dumping Acid in children's faces is what thier God wants..they are after all insane.

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