Taliban Increasingly Unpopular in Pakistan, Gallup, 12 March 2010
EXCERPT: "The Taliban's presence on either side of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border is largely unwelcome, but increasingly so in Pakistan, where Gallup surveys show they have lost much of the little appeal they had. Four percent of Pakistanis in a November-December 2009 poll, conducted prior to Pakistan's current push to rout the Taliban within its borders, said the Taliban's presence in some areas of the country has a positive influence, down from 15% in June. Gallup most recently polled Pakistanis in the particularly deadly period after the army's anti-Taliban operations in the South Waziristan tribal area started in October. Retributive militant attacks across Pakistan reportedly have claimed more than 600 Pakistanis' lives since then, which the public's increasingly negative view of the Taliban may reflect."
Read the full survey report.
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in Swat, Punjab likely to backfire on Taliban [blog], Juan Cole:
Informed Comment, 13 March 2010
US envoy says public opinion swings against Taliban in Pakistan, VOA News, 10 June 2009
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