Pakistan's surrender

The NYTimes is the first place I've seen the Pakistan/Taleban agreement properly framed.

The government announced Monday that it would accept a system of Islamic law in the Swat valley and agreed to a truce, effectively conceding the area as a Taliban sanctuary and suspending a faltering effort by the army to crush the insurgents.

Allowing the Taleban free run, suspending the official governmental rule of law to be replaced by Taleban run Sharia courts...... The Pakistanis more or less surrendered Swat, at least temporarily.