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Islamabad should stop appeasing Taliban

AFP, Islamabad
Pakistan needs to use force to reassert government control in areas overrun by Islamist extremists and prevent them from invading the capital, analysts said.
Armed militants have set up checkpoints and are occupying mosques in districts just 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Islamabad, posing what Washington has called a threat to the very existence of the nuclear-armed nanon.
"This policy of appeasement is not going to work because it gives time to the Taliban to consolidate," political analyst Anees Jillani told AI R referring to a peace deal struck between the government and the Taliban.
"The government should also cut the arms supply line to theTaliban,"hesaid
The militants' move into Buner district northwest of the capital comes after Islamabad ceded control of the scenic Swat valley, allowing the Taliban to enforce traditional Islamic law, or sharia, in what was once the jewel of Pakistan's tourism industry.
But analysts said the deal in Swat, reached after a bloody two-year insurgency, has simply allowed the Taliban to regroup, consolidate and expand control into other regions.
"The government has to handle the Taliban the way the Sri Lankan government is handling the Tami) Tigers," Jillani said, referring to the end-game assault on anti-government rebels by Sri Lanka's army in that country's north.
The Taliban takeover in Buner is evidence that the group's strategy of intimidating police and officials is working because of the fundamental weakness of President Asif Ali Zardari's government, the analysts said.
"This government lacks the ability to take decisions, there is no clarity of thought needed to take tough decisions," said Hamid Nawaz, a former interior minister and political analyst.
"Talibanisation is a big problem -- you have to have a clear head and national resolve to overcome this problem," he said, adding that Islamabad needed to take back control from theTaliban.
"Swat should be sanitised and die government should focus on reinforcing law enforcement agencies in the region.
"No preventive measures to stop theTaliban from moving to other areas... were taken after signing of the deal," Nawaz said. "The government has also not worked out any contingency plan. A ceasefire will always work in the insurgents'favour
The Taliban's growing con trol in Swat has raised the spectre of an invasion of Islamabad
For Zafarullah Khan, director of the independent Centre for Civic Education, the unwillingness of the military to halt the advance of the Taliban poses a threat to Islamabad.