Don't expect tensions in Pakistan to ease any time soon, said Sanjeev Miglani in Reuters. U.S. missiles slammed into targets in Pakistan's al Qaida-infested tribal areas during Barack Obama's first week as U.S. president, "dispelling any possibility that he might relent on these raids that have so angered Pakistanis."
Coddling Pakistan is certainly no solution, said Yasmeen Hassan in The Washington Post. The Taliban have been bombing schools in the tribal region's Swat Valley to enforce a ban on educating girls. To put a stop to this, President Obama will have to "avoid the mistakes of the Bush administration" by pressuring Pakistan to take active steps to "curb the Talibanization of the country."
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