"...The Taliban have accused some militant leaders of the tribal areas and some leaders of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, Harkatul Mujahideen and Hizbul Mujahideen of trying to stop youngsters from fighting the Pakistani forces. Taliban have declared all these “pro-Pakistan” Jihadis as their enemies......This complicated situation has forced the government to take some extreme steps against the Taliban in Darra Adamkhel and Swat, who had killed a Polish engineer as a reaction to the operations in their areas.
"...So, an attack inside the Pakistani capital cannot be ruled out, and indeed might be imminent....The aim there might be to hasten the government's retreat from normal rule of law in the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas and Swat in favor of a sharia-based system, using the Taliban's convoluted interpretation of Islamic traditions..."
FP, here and in the Pakistani The News, here
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