... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
government has decided to withdraw army from Malakand region, including Swat, gradually enabling the civil administration to take full control of the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas, a ruling party MPA said on Friday. "We have decided to withdraw the army from Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
and Malakand region," Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is
Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
MPA and party's provincial General Secretary Shaukat Yousafzai confirmed. The previous government of Pakistain People's Party had ordered the army to launch an operation against Mullah Fazlullah
...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
-led Taliban in Swat in June 2009 displacing millions of people from the region.
Shaukat Yousafzai said the withdrawal would be gradual and army would hand over control to civilians in areas where security situation was completely normal now. "Soft places would first be handed over to the civilian administration." The PTI MPA, who is among the hopefuls for ministries, did not say when the withdrawal would begin. Qaumi Watan Party Chairman Aftab Sherpao Khan had been demanding withdrawal of army from Malakand after the region stabilised with the ousting of Mullah Fazlullah-led Taliban who now appear to have taken refuge across the border in Afghanistan.
Shaukat Yousafzai also brushed aside the impression that the differences between PTI and Jamaat-e-Islami
...
The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
over the issue of Education Ministry might sink the coalition deeper into crisis. "It has been resolved," he said when asked where the controversy was taking the coalition partners. Due to the differences over the Education Ministry between the two parties the cabinet of Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has not yet been able to take oath. "The ministers are likely to take oath either on Monday or Tuesday," Shaukat Yousafzai, who was a career journalist before starting active politics from the PTI platform, said.