I have been in Pakistan for quite a few days, and have talked to people living and working in Swat and Malakand. It is quite clear to me that while army action has affected innocent civilians with very high casualties, it has not been able to exterminate middle or high level taliban leadership or even affected their operational capabilities.

In one typical example of army action, they bombed home of a local college principal because some body fired at army convoy from the general direction of his house. In similar actions they have razed whole villages by bombing.

On the other hand, militant convoys consisting of tens of vehicles move around freely and enforce their writ on ordinary, unarmed citizens while security forces are watching them from their checkposts, or security forces just vacate the areas during such times. So what's happening exactly ? It seems that our top army leadership is coordinating and helping spread of Talibanization. Developments along similar lines also include murder of local elders who try to fight Talibanization and cooperate with government to resist Talibans influence.

The political government headed by Zardari and his allies do not have political vision, and real political will to challenge this dangerous trend.

The kind of organization and mass mobilization that Taliban require billions of rupees, which can not come from within Pakistan. Obviously all finance is coming from outside. One person told me that thousands of outlaws that used to live in tribal areas have been hired by Taliban leaders at the monthly salary of Rs. 15000 and are being used to instill fear in the hearts of local population and gain control over them.

It is abundantly clear that Talibanization and Islamization is part of dangerous international game where they are funding these forces in order to destabilize and disintegerate Pakistan as a wider objective of war on terror.

We need to initiate greater reform in our society to bring a counter revolution to change our civil and military leadership in order to fight back against such dangerous games where our own religion Islam is being used in a very backward and primitive manner to murder our people and our country.