The Pakistani Spectator

Pakistan Army has devised a new plan for the settlement and return of the Malakand operation victims. This plan seems to be comprehensive so far. This plan is going to be supervised and carried out by the emergency response unit. This plan aims at speedy and safe return of the people from the camps and from other parts of the country. This plan chalks out that more than 3000 commuter vehicles will be needed to transfer the IDPs.

A long time seems to have passed since the operation Rah-e-Rast has started. Though still we dont have the reassuring news of the arrest or elimination of top leadership of the Swat terrorists, it is clear that the Taliban guerilla resistance has virtually vanished from 90% of the Swat valley and now the battleground is the South Waziristan.

Unofficially the people have started going back to their homes in Buner and Swat and even to the Peuchar valley. Now when the curfew is relaxed in affected emerald valley, people come and not go out. That is good to hear, but government must make sure that these people doesn’t become the target of Taliban wrath. Also returning IDPs must cherish their newly found quasi-peace and make it lasting by defending their areas.