Musharraf vacillates while the enemy is at Peshawar's gates

The Taliban are working on two fronts. One is to oppose American and NATO forces in Afghanistan; the other is to intimidate the population in urban areas of Pakistan, particularly in frontier areas. Most of the suicide bombings have been directed against government functionaries and even ordinary citizens. And almost all of them, including the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, can be traced to Taliban-al-Qaeda axis operations out of the tribal areas of Pakistan.