Pakistan seeks 'hardcore' Taliban

Good news , but yet to be confirmed , all journalists are banned from the area . I like the fact that they have put a bounty On the higher ups of the Taliban !

BBC

The Pakistani army says it is preparing to flush
"hardcore" Taliban rebels out of the Swat valley after regaining
control of the main city, Mingora.

"We are going after the
leadership and we are going to take care of all the militants in the
valley," spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas told the BBC.

Clashes continued outside Mingora but its centre was under control, he said
"We have been able to block the major routes and the entries, exit points of the valley," said Gen Abbas.

"So we are in a better position to flush out, to eliminate the main militants, the hardcore militants of the valley."

Pakistan has increased its reward for the capture of the Taliban leader in Swat, Maulana Fazlullah, to 50m rupees ($600,000).

The radical cleric is believed to be the architect of a two-year uprising in the valley aimed at enforcing Islamic law.