Taliban take over Swat’s emerald mines

What if taliban themselves wear the emerald....!!

Seriously, west can't do much about the situation. The need of the hour is  support from even east (India) and north  (Russia) also. Especially since Russia is no more a red devil in the western eyes. Not only the military solution, but much more beyond that.

Till  such cooperation materializes , I am afraid that you have no other option but to  wear the taliban emerald...!

.Agent.

Doubt the the west doesn't care too much about those mines, as long as they have the poppy fields and can prevent/"control" one of the worlds largest heroin producers.

Seems like things are hotting up in the area - more troops to Afganistan and sounds like an offensive on Pakistani soil might be on the cards soon, talk about Pakistan not being able to take care of itself, etc.. and india would certainly be happy with that.

There's always Columbian emeralds.

What happened to my comments lol :(
It is gone and I have to write again.. First thing to point out though.. Zardari is the president and it is yousaf Gilani the prime minister but we all know it is Zardari who is calling the shots or trying to.
I will try to repeat what I said earlier .. I agree to your comments. That Zardari is pathetically begging for money to fight terrorism.. If it is his war then why is he demanding money and favours?  By the way talking about dollars a big portion of this money will find its way to Swiss accounts as usual and rest will be wasted on committees and other lavishness  and only a small portion will find its way to training and equipping the security forces. This is how the third word corrupt countries work.
Now I wonder, it was same PPP government who used to criticise in Unison with the west when Musharaff signed the peace deals in the beginning when the militancy was in its infancy compared to its present scale. At that point PPP tirelessly sold it self to west saying that they will crush the Taliban and will welcome the NATO operations within Pakistan. But now the same government has literally given away the whole Swat valley to Taliban who might turn back tomorrow asking for more areas.
Re emeralds and other precious stones first it was drugs and Saudi oil money funding Taliban now it’s the stones. Are they affected by the recession? I don’t think so.
I guess at this point you might agree that the democratic change after Musharaf has been a huge disappointment because the politicians fail to learn from the past there is same selfish and irresponsible politics of confrontation and political scoring at the cost of the country. Sadly US had to use Pakistan Army to twist the arms of both PPP and Nawaz league to reach reconciliation and pull the country out of uncertainty. The
kind of attitude Pakistani politicians are displaying it hardly resembles any responsible governance let alone democracy and West might have to request the help of Pakistan Army which remains the only functioning institution in Pakistan. Its only time when Pak Army might step in again ,once given the nod by US, if PPP continues to consolidate its own political power with total disregard to growing militant threat.
Only time will tell where it will all go.  Presently the odds are against a sensible and responsible democratic government.

Amazing, a man who even does not know the name of the chief executive of the neighbouring country and whose country is involved in terrorism in Pakistan is spitting venom against Pakistan and worrying about the country's nuclear weapons. And he is ignoring the fact that the serving commissioned officers of the Indian army have been found involved in terrorism so he might spare  some moments to also think about the Indian nukes that are at grave risk of being stolen and handed over to the Hindu terrorists by any Colonel Prohet.

Wow.  How is it that Obama isnt taking these man made disasters out?

the thing is.. US and other NATO forces have miserably failed in Afghanistan and are reduced to within few hundred meters of their bases. check out the links below, the Ultimate might of NATO v fanatic talibans 

losing ground to taliban

admiting failure

in the link below the NATO official is saying that there is no military solution, hiting at the dialog, yet Pakistan is criticised when it does the same for the sake of People in the war affected areas.

Note, in all these links the people commenting have actual war experience in Afghanistan and are not singing the usual corus of "Pakistan not doing enough" even if they did. I would say what have you achieved so far and if they point to "safe heavens in Pakistan" then my question is..

1. are you sending UAVs for a joy ride?

2. what are your soliders and airforce doing when the taliban cross the border and come back in Afghanistan?

it is very easy to mock and blame a smaller and weaker country, left to fight a war which it didnt start and which was not its war but has become its own war. it has already lost many civilian and military personal, doctors , teachers and politicians and so many women.

while the taliban continue to tease NATO and Pakistan forces the media and war pundits and news Anchors continue to blame Pakistan.. yes its strategy has failed its military has been ineffective, what have you done so far?

Thank you for commenting, Amaad.

Sorry, I have made an error while writing this story. I have corrected it and the error was visible for 7 hours. Not more.Otherwise also it was not a life threatening error.

But what about the error made by the Pakistan chief and otherwise " Executive" ? Giving a religious terrorist organization - that made up of human looking beings made out of pure hatred at everything different from them  - a country of their own. Will they ever be able to correct the error they made?

Agreed that the taliban "students" belong to generation of refugee children grown up in refugee camps for Afghans who fled from Soviet Occupation. But they grew up to adults feasting on the religious venom fed by the Saudis. They know no other language or skills but only those of hate and terror. 

Now another generation of Pakistani children in the Swat valley will grow up under the taliban "rule". More ruthless, more violent, more hate-filled and more fanatic.

Nuclear Taliban......!

Dear Hussain, will anybody in Pakistan "Executive" be able to correct this error ever....??

.Agent.

I respect your opinion Agent, and I do believe that Zardari is nothing more than a beggar - and I'm almost convinced the money he gets from the west isn't going to be used in the right place.

As for the Taliban taking control, it is indeed a terrible news, and the common man in a rather sensible part of Pakistan (Sindh, Punjab and Baluchistan) does not like what is happening there.

For the nuclear weapons, one must keep in mind that those are controlled with extreme caution and security. The Kahota Research Labs and other nuclear facilities are under a powerful shield that is operated by no politician but by Pakistan's military - which is I assure you damn good at protecting the nuclear facilities and weapons from even the biggest threats.

Let me also remind you that, if Pakistan military wants, it can easily teach these Talibans a lesson but the military under government's orders is following the plan of least possible Collateral damage. These Talibans are not the majority and they do not have the support of the majority of the public in Swat - they are destroying schools and setting their stupid rules which they call Sharia'h. It's like a war within Pakistan in the Northern/Tribal Areas between Pakistan and the extremists. Of course, if I were the president, I would request all peace loving people to move out of the way to we could teach those Talibans a lesson.

There is also another interesting opinion that Zardari is a puppet of the US and this Taliban movement is backed by the US and they want to create a pretext to convince the world that Pakistan should not have the nukes because the Taliban are talking over Pakistan and they would get control of the nukes. After all, you can visit http://www.ae911truth.org and see and get convinced yourself how the US created pretext for occupation of various resources of the world. The reason the US wants Pakistan to be a nukes-less state is because Pakistan, according to Israel, poses direct threat to Israel. Since we all know how much the US is controlled by Israel, there's no surprise that US is doing all that is happening. You're an Israeli Agent, you should know ;)

So again, if people are sitting in their bedrooms and imagining the rest of Pakistan to be just like those tribal areas, please wake up. The nuclear facilities and weapons of Pakistan are in absolute safe hands - the Pakistan military and Taliban is no more than an ant's fart in front of the mighty Pakistan military to cause any trouble or even think of gaining control of the nukes.