Is the Pakistani government making more concessions????

Well, no matter what the government does, the Taliban won't be happy....

The government has strengthened Islamic law by establishing an Islamic appeal court, even though the militants have refused to lay down their arms.

But as the government made yet more concessions, Sufi Mohammed, a former militant and leader of the Islamist Tehrik- Nifaz-i-Shariat Mohammed (TNSM), rejected the Sharia high court saying he wanted his own men established as judges.

He had pledged to persuade militants to lay down arms but instead he addressed a rally calling the judiciary and democracy "un-Islamic".

Muslim Khan, a Taliban spokesman, said that the militants refused to lay down their weapons because guns were "the ornaments of Muslims".

The army accused the Taliban of acting in "gross violation" of the peace accord in the Swat Valley and committing several violent acts over the weekend, including beheadings, attacking security forces and destroying a bridge and a government school.

Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister for the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), said the government had fulfilled its part of the bargain and that militants must now disarm.