Pakistan’s military failures emboldening terrorists to launch more attacks
While the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops have been staging air strikes against the Taliban and other militant groups in Afghanistan and the Af-Pak border region, similar war tactics by Pakistani troops have resulted in few gains and a rising civilian death toll.
On the one side, civilians are fed up with the nearly daily bombings, targeted killings, harassment and kidnappings perpetrated by the militants, while on the other side, as more civilians die in failed attempts to kill militants, and there is no visible progress in curtailing militant activities, support for the government among the population is decreasing, reports the Foreign Policy magazine.