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By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press SARAROGHA, Pakistan (AP) Driving through high mountain passes with mud brick houses perched on cliffs overhead and caves down below where Taliban fighters used to hide, Brig. Hassan Hayat talks excitedly about the Pakistan army's latest operations in these long-hostile tribal areas. "Now we are getting into the olives," he said as the road passed through groves of trees, explaining how the military has been bringing in Italian olive trees to graft onto local growers' trees to improve production. "Some 400 trees we've already done." He had wanted to plant daffodils, he mentioned at another point in the trip. But it turned out the flowers would be too hard to export. Bee farms have proven more productive,toms shoes online. After battling Taliban militants in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan for over a decade, the Pakistani military is engaged in a new fight, aiming to win over a population who are returning to their homes in the region after years living as refugees in their own country and who harbor a longstanding mistrust of the central government. The military is rebuilding infrastructure and setting up economic and job projects for the population in South Waziristan, one of the seven tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan. It's a classic counterinsurgency tactic similar to that used by the U.S. military with mixed results in Iraq and Afghanistan. The aim is to decrease support for militants and bring peace to a troubled region in this case, tribal areas that have long been sanctuaries for the Taliban and other militant groups fueling instability in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. "Once the people are more aware, more educated, they will not take up arms but go for the development and be a positive contributor in society," said Hayat. With a month to go before nationwide elections that will see a transfer of power from one elected government to another for the first time in Pakistan's history, security will be a major campaign issue. Since many of Pakistan's security problems are linked to what happens in the tribal regions, the success or failure of the counterinsurgency campaign could have major repercussions for the rest of the country. Pakistan's battle against the Taliban began after the U.S. invasion of neighboring Afghanistan in 2001, which pushed many militants across the border into the tribal regions of northwestern Pakistan. There, they found allies among a local population historically neglected by Pakistan's central government. Much of the population is Pashtun, the ethnic group which has been the backbone of the Taliban. Working out of the tribal areas, the Pakistani branch of the Taliban launched a campaign of attacks inside Pakistan. South Waziristan became the main sanctuary for the Pakistani Taliban, until the army launch Related articles:

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