Deal or No Deal

Swat is part of Pakistan’s Malakand division bordering Afghanistan and administered by the provincial government of Pakistan’s North West Province. Till recently it was the most idyllic and peaceful tourist destination in Pakistan. Two years of Taliban instigated violence changed all that and finally the federal government, under pressure from the provincial government, approved a peace agreement with the militants. Ostensibly the agreement was with a ‘moderate’ cleric whose son in law had led the militant movement. The agreement was sold as a peace agreement that would lead to the militants laying down their arms in return for Islamic Sharia Law.

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