Babar where did you get the idea that Imran 'supports' terrorists? This is the most ridiculous idea you've ever espoused and for some reason you keep repeating it unabashedly. Last time you sent a couple of youtube videos that were supposed to 'confirm' his support for terrorism but even though I tried and lord I tried, I could not find any trace of support for terrorism

1- If Pakistan army was killing innocent....

Who tells you that these particular tribesmen are supporting the army? Maybe they were paid for their support?

2. Innocent Pakhtoons... From whose perspective were they innocent?

3. Sold out journalists? In other words If you speak against the government you are not a patriot. Hmmm where have I heard that before?

Remember, a guerilla war cannot be successfully waged unless the majority of the inhabitants support it. This more than anything confirms that the majority of the Paktoon population is behind these 'extremists' as they are evidently waging a very successful war

By the way have you ever asked yourself what exactly do these 'extremists' want? Or have you bought into the propaganda that they abhor 'our way of life'?

Live and let live man, ask them what they want, tell them what you want and then work towards a mutually acceptable, happy medium. Neither they can wipe you out nor you them and sooner or later you will have to sit and chat with them (as is currently being done in Saudi Arabia). So why cause all this bloodshed tobegin with?

I am going to play the devils advocate since no matter what I say will be percived by you as supporting terror.

How is killing someone by beheading them worse than shooting them or dropping bombs on them. Is death more bearable if carried out using modern technology? Is it the terrorists fighting us because they can't stand our way of life or us fighting them because we can't stand their way of life. What right do we have to fight to safeguard our way of life and why don't the Taliban, etc have the same right?

What does the government do to traitors? Kills them correct? So why is it wrong for the Talibans to kill those whom they deem traitors?

Until and unless everyone realizes that the terrorists are NOT doing this for fun but are actually retaliating against what they percieve as injustice to them things will not change

What do you mean by decisive action? You seem to be under the illusion that these are a few, identifiable thugs who are causing the bloodshed. This is an extremely gullible position, this is a POPULAR uprising, admit it.

So the government sends troops with orders to kill and arrest the terrorists

1. How do you identify them

2. How do you turn popular sentiment towards your side instead of further alieanating the population?

3. The northern areas have already been 'radicalized'  by further bloodshed you just give them more recruits while at the same time risking radicalization of Punjabi's, Sindhi's etc who can, after all, only allow a certain amount of bloodshed for this very unpopular Saddam like approach of fighting and killing civilians of your own country

Try to look for implementable solutions and not knee jerk reactions such as "lets go kill them and show them who's boss"

At some point we too will be exhausted and will turn to negotiations so why no forego further bloodshed and turn to dialogue now?

All the funding in the world cannot lead to a successful operation in a guerilla war. Here is how it works

You launch a surprise attack on your opposition and then melt away into the local population. In conventional warfare you either take and hold territory or retreat to your stronghold. 

These fighters do not have a stronghold but are able to blend into the citizenry with the consent of the citizens. In small towns and communities everyone knows everyone and everyone knows everyones business but as is evident from ground realities the citizens have chosen to either assist actively or to remain indifferent. The lashkars that you talk about are few and far between as compared to the mainstream

Shia Sunni violence and small scale religious radicalism does not ever become such a powerful force of change as the 'war of liberation' (that is exactly what the locals consider it) being fought in FATA.

The Taliban and Al Qaeda are two different forces and two different ideologies so lets not confuse the two. One is a popular movement because it is considered a freedom movement and the other a radical terrorist organization. 

The US made the same mistake of grouping the two together and only now after 7 years have realized their folly and started dialogue with the Taliban. Had they, to begin with, understood the complex traditions of that region, they would have known that there was no way the Taliban could have handed over the Al Qaeda leadership. They could certainly have prevented them from executing terrorism, which they did offer to do, but could not have turned them over to the US.

So again, we can send troops to the region but who are they going to arrest and who are they going to kill? How will they identify the terroists? Force is a successful option only when your enemy is identifiable otherwise all such adventures end in disaster.

I do want peace in Pakistan but have set my emotions aside so before you, as is normal for you, respond by attacking me and my gullibility instead of the problem please take a step back, think about the problem not me and then start typing

There has to be a popular sentiment and local will otherwise all the outside funds in the world cannot create a successful guerilla movement. The uprisings in Bangladesh, Lebanon and Afghanistan did not originate in a vacuum. Outsiders helped the local population, they did not exclusively fight the war for them.