I‘ve been saying for months now that Pakistan has no desire to move into South Waziristan, the Taliban and al Qaeda stronghold in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. According to Time magazine, a Pakistani official with close ties to the military said that no such operation would occur, and in fact the military would resume the disastrous policy of signing peace agreements with the Taliban:

Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institute thinks the Pakistani military is seeking to keep its policy of strategic depth – keeping the Taliban in reserve as a chip against India and hedging against a US withdraw from Afghanistan – in place, and thus threatening President Obama’s AfPak strategy to defeat al Qaeda and the Taliban: