Pakistan’s Prime Minister used a late-night, nationally televised address to officially announce a military operation to “eliminate” the Taliban in the country’s volatile northwest, where the largest human exodus in South Asia since the partition of India and Pakistan continued for the twelfth straight day.
And in response…
Angered by Pakistan government’s decision to launch an all out war against them, the Taliban has vowed to “eliminate” country’s top leadership including President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and their close family members.
