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Peace deal: So what is the deal?
Pakistan has signed a landmark peace agreement with pro-Taleban militants near the Afghan border. The deal aims to end several years of often intense fighting inside Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal area.
Senior military commanders and local militant leaders exchanged hugs and congratulations after signing the agreement in Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area.
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**********Excerpt from Dawn*********
History repeats itself but in Pakistan?s case, it perhaps repeats itself rather too often. And so the government and militants in the volatile North Waziristan tribal region have signed a peace agreement and quite understandably, Governor Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai, the chief architect of the accord, has hailed it as an unprecedented event.
Unprecedented it is. Like a pendulum, the government policy has swung from one extreme to another, from the use of brute military force to what appears to be total capitulation to militants. Never did the government try to intelligently combine the use of force with pursuit of dialogue
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Different links:
1) http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/06/top15.htm
2) http://voanews.com/english/2006-09-05-voa20.cfm
3) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5320692.stm
Okay, I am beginning to scratch my head more furiously. What is happening? Only time will tell.