The Taliban Are Now Consolidating Their Control On Many Of Pakistan's Tribal Regions

From The Long War Journal:

The Taliban have consolidated their control of the Arakzai tribal agency over the past week as the Pakistani military is redeploying troops from the insurgency-infested northwest to the eastern border with India.

The Arakzai Taliban, under the control of Hakeemullah Mehsud, has imposed sharia or Islamic law throughout the tribal agency over the past week.

The Taliban declared sharia in Upper Arakzai on Dec. 22. Tribesmen in Upper Arakzai were instructed to bring their legal disputes to Taliban courts and were ordered the end to deforestation. On Dec. 28, the Taliban in Lower Arakzai used "loudspeakers in mosques to announce the decree and were asking the people to bring their issues to ‘Taliban Islamic courts,” Daily Times reported. The Taliban "banned women from visiting bazaars and have imposed a complete ban on TV and CDs and video centers in the agency."

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My Comment: Bill Roggio of "The Long War Journal" is reporting on a war that very few are covering. The capitulation of Pakistani military units now creates a safe sanctuary for the Taliban to not only wage war against the Pakistan Government .... but to wage war against Afghan and coalition forces in Afghanistan.