Good News for the Taliban

?If all this sounds eerily reminiscent of Taliban rule in Afghanistan before the U.S. and NATO military action to remove it, that's because it is. Having failed miserably?despite receiving billions in American military aid'to quash the militants in the border areas, the Pakistani government has now, at least temporarily, given up and provided them with a safe haven, as well as a 'legal' system of their own.?