Mustafa Qadri

If you ever wonder how a group as harsh as the Taliban is capable of getting support from ordinary Pashtuns consider the Pakistan Government’s near total indifference to their suffering in internally displaced person camps:

…during three separate trips to Bajaur, we clearly saw the only way they could fight an entrenched Taliban was with scorched-earth tactics. Where they fought, at least 80 percent of the mud homes that once stood have disappeared back into the ground, destroyed by American Cobra helicopters or even F-16s.

And…

“Even animals won’t eat what we are being given to eat here,” Wali Gul, 35, told an ABC News reporter who visited the camp this evening. His anger was visible. “There is no medicine and we have lost our children because of lack of medical facilities.”