Sunday the truce between Militants in northwest Pakistan ended as they disavowed a peace pact with the government and launched two days of suicide attacks and bombings that killed at least 70 people, dramatically escalating the violence in the al-Qaeda infiltrated region.
The attacks Sunday and Saturday followed strident calls by extremists to avenge the government's bloody storming of Islamabad's Red Mosque and a declaration of jihad, or holy war, by at least one pro-Taliban cleric.
Termination of the peace treaty, the hopeful handiwork of President General Pervez Musharraf, puts even greater pressure on the military leader as he struggles with both Islamic extremists and a gathering pro-democracy movement.
As President Musharraf said the other day, this is an all out war for Pakistan and the Militants will surrender or be killed, which is the stance that he should have taken four years ago, and this mess would be over instead of just starting.
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