Peshawar (Pakistan), Apr. 17 : The Taliban have advanced deeper into Pakistan by engineering a class revolt that exploits profound fissures between a small group of wealthy landlords and their landless tenants, according to government officials and analysts here.
According to a New York Times report, the strategy has cleared a path to power for the Taliban in the Swat Valley, where the government has allowed Islamic law to be imposed this week.
The militants have organized peasants into armed gangs and told them to act as shock troops, the residents, government officials and analysts said.