Sick and Tired

Even after terrorists Struck a Hotel in Pakistan, Killing 11 wounding 55 - there is good news in Pakistan. A story you probably won't hear.

Villagers in the Dir region of Pakistan are rising up against the Taliban in a grass-roots stand against the militants and a shift in the growing confidence to confront them.

More than a thousand villagers from the district of Dir have been fighting Taliban militants ever since a Taliban suicide bomber detonated his payload during prayer time at a mosque, killing at least 30 villagers.

Enraged by the bombing, men from surrounding villages began looking for Taliban militants and their supporters, burning houses and killing at least 11 men they identified as Taliban fighters, according to accounts from seven local residents, including one who took part in the fighting.

The uprising is not the first time that Pakistanis have formed their own militias to stand up to the Taliban, and previous efforts have often collapsed largely because the government and military did not come to their aid.

A case of NIMBY in action, or have the people of Pakistan had enough of the Taliban?