Ominous signs: Dialogue with Taliban in Pakistan

Ominous signs: Dialogue with TTP - DAWN.COM: 
"Consider just what Mullah Fazlullah and Sheikh Khalid Haqqani’s appointment as new TTP chief and deputy could mean for KP. Already showed to be so thoroughly vulnerable in recent months, the province ought to be furiously strengthening the intelligence and security apparatus that can help protect KP and its population. Instead, the PTI insists that dialogue is still the preferred and necessarily first option. And when Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan talks about discussing and coordinating the federal government’s strategy on militancy, it is dialogue with the TTP that the interior minister has in mind — not working on protecting the province from the wave of attacks the TTP has virtually guaranteed will occur in the days and weeks ahead."