More than the army chaps being kidnapped, which is what is making headlines for now, the more important, I think there is a new strategy in place as the new spurt in terror attacks happen in Pakistan.
The message seems to be headed to the PA that they should not mistake the TTP with what they were when the SWAT clean-up operation happened, back then they were far from giving any substantive response.
This time round these chaps are well spread out, better organised, more determined with attacks being reported from Karachi to interior Punjab (which is anyways an active breeding ground for terror recruits) to Baluchistan and if the PA, at the behest of the NATO, take them on post the elections in Pakistan, then the war won't just be confined to North Waziristan but will be well spread out and will be fought in the heartland of Pakistan and if by chance Karachi and Punjab come under attack, the very future of Pakistan as a united country could come under question.
Pakistanis will have to tread this very carefully and so I think they are on a spree of releasing the Afghan Taliban, which not only helps them get leverage in the Afghanistan end-game but also helps them divert the attention of the TTP on to what TTP would perceive as something fruitful for the Taliban movement. As usual the PA has also used a part of Afghan Taliban, this time Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, to make a condemnation call against the TTP, and make him announce that their war is not as per the ethos of jihad, as it should be, well, as per the definition of PA, of course.
What surprises me the most is, what sort of a dream world does the PA live in? In Afghanistan they want the Taliban to see the moon, and they promise them that they will get all the support possible to achieve it, but if they achieve it, will the aspirations of the highly religious Pakistani, who are to be found in abundance, also not want to achieve the same moon, but this time in Pakistan, where they would want to replicate the same to what the Afghan Taliban would have achieved in Afghanistan?
As usual, the PA continues to make strategic blunders, no less!