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Pakistanis aim to kill leaders of Taliban in Swat
Wed Jun 3, 2009 10:55am EDT
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MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities are preparing for the return of residents to Swat's main town but decisive victory will only be won when Taliban leaders are dead, an army commander said on Wednesday.
The army began battling Taliban in the region in late April, after a militant thrust into a district 100 km (60 miles) northwest of the capital raised fear at home and abroad that the nuclear-armed country could slowly slip into militant hands.
The army has secured the main town of Mingora and pushed militants out of many other parts of the Swat valley, until recently famous for its ski slopes and summer hiking. But the fighting has also forced about 2 million people from their homes.
There are no independent casualty estimates but the army says more than 1,230 militants have been killed, while it has lost more than 90 men. But Taliban leaders in Swat have apparently escaped the army's fire.
Major-General Ijaz Awan, an army commander in Swat, said conclusive victory would only be won when they were killed.
"Their death is vital to kill their myth," Awan told a group of reporters flown to Swat by the army on Wednesday.
The United States, which criticized a February peace pact with the Taliban in Swat as tantamount to abdicating to the militants, has applauded the offensive.
U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke arrived in Pakistan saying he wanted to assess relief efforts for the displaced and see how the United States could help more.
"We believe that the actions taken by the Pakistani government and military in recent weeks have been necessary, essential, and have improved the situation, but the fighting is still going on, there's a lot more to go," Holbrooke told Geo
TV.
Holbrooke also said the United States aimed to give Pakistan $200 million, in addition to $110 million already pledged, for help for the displaced.
The United States needs Pakistani help to defeat al Qaeda and subdue the Taliban in Afghanistan. While Swat is not on the Afghan border, there was a danger it could have become a bastion for militants fighting across the region.
President Asif Ali Zardari told the news conference it was too soon to say the war was going well.
"We have a war of ideology to fight ... once we've won the hearts and minds of the people in the region, then I'll say we've progressed," Zardari said.
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