Click to play videoSwat Valley: The ceasefire between Islamabad and the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat Valley proves that the Islamist extremist threat is getting stronger. And thats being felt hardest by Swat valley's young girls - who have lost their right to an education.
Fourteen-year-old Hina khan says all she wants for herself and her siblings is to go to school. "When I grow up I want to be a doctor" she said.
However, In a ruthless campaign Islamist extremists torched and destroyed more than 180 schools.
What Hina's family did was run away from Pakistan's Swat Valley, a picturesque region that used to be so popular, tourists called it Pakistan's Switzerland.
But the tourists have been replaced by a ruthless Taliban regime, no music, no clean shaves for men, no teenage girls in school. Ignore the rules and it could mean one's life.
"Right now they're brutal. They're killing, beheading people, hanging up dead bodies," said Tahira Abdullah.
The Pakistan army spokesman, general Athar Abbas says many local police officers were too afraid to stay. "They've either resigned or run away," he said.
Abbas said the army is planning a new strategy to fight the Taliban. For now Pakistan's 500,000 member armed forces have only 15,000 troops deployed in the region.
The reason for not sending more troops to regions like Swat Athar says is other duties the which the army has to carry out.
It's more important than Swat says Athar, as he says Pakistan has a threat from the East. That threat, according to Abbas, is India.
But human rights activists say there is no excuse for why one of the largest armies in the world can't secure what's a relatively small region and give these kids the basic right of an education.
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