The Pakistani military has entered the largest city in the Taliban-controlled district of Swat, the state reports.
Pakistan allowed the Taliban to control the northern province of Swat in exchange for a peace treaty. The Taliban agreed to stop fighting if Pakistan allowed the Taliban to control Swat and impose sharia law.
After the Taliban broke the deal by invading one province south, Buner, fighting has restarted and escalated in intensity.
The state’s military is now attacking Taliban militants in the stronghold at the city of Mingora in a an operation called “the clearance of Mingora.”
Tens of thousands of civilians fled the city in anticipation of the battle. According to the U.N., 1.7 million people have fled the northwest of Pakistan. The U.N. calls it the worst refugee situation since the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
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