Nedskydningen af den 14-årige forkæmper for pigeuddannelse Malala Yusufzai d. 9. oktober, er en påmindelse om at den militante talibanbevægelse stadig er stærk og en trussel i det nordlige Pakistan.
PESHAWAR, 12. oktober, 2012 (IRIN): A large-scale operation by the Pakistan army against militants in 2009, later hailed as largely successful, has not driven away the hardliners.
“We hear a new operation may be launched here against the Taliban, but nothing is formal yet,” an administrative official in Swat who asked not to be named, told IRIN. “We are keeping up the search for militants, including those who shot Malala,” the district police officer for Swat, Rasool Shah, told IRIN.
The military spokesman for Swat, Col Arif Mehmood, told the media this month that a “search operation” had been on for the past five days against “suspected militants”.
The militants’ targets include campaigners for women’s rights, such as Fareeda Afridi, who was shot dead in Peshawar while on her way to the Khyber Agency, where she worked for the women’s empowerment NGO Sawera.
Meanwhile, schools continue to be bombed in various incidents. Syed Nauman Ali Shah, the political administration officer in Orakzai Agency, told IRIN, “93 schools have been blown up here since 2009, and the trend continues.”
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