Taliban flexing muscles for Chitral?

Taliban flexing muscles for Chitral? 

Report Zulfiqar Ahmad

ISLAMABAD: After completely ruining the peace of Swat, Buner and 
Dir, now the next destination of Taliban seems to be Chitral, the 
largest district of Malakand Division.
Sources told this reporter that the next target of Taliban is definitely 
Chitral, where they could not reach due to the closure of the Lowari 
Pass for the last over five months due to snow.
They are flexing their muscles to show dominance in the valley as quite 
a large number of their like-minded hardliners are already there, said the 
sources. According to these sources, Taliban access to Chitral will 
damage the peace of the valley to the point of no return as the population 
of the district consists of three communities - Sunni, Ismaili and Kalash.
Expressing grave concern and fear over the possible shift of Taliban
to Chitral after opening of the Lowari Pass, Chitralis living in twin
cities of Rawalpindi-Islamabad have demanded of the government to
deploy troops replacing the handful of paramilitary personnel on Lowari
top.
They said if the government did not take precautionary measures
to stop the Taliban from entering Chitral, soon the already backward 
valley would present the view of Stone Age with no education and 
other basic amenities of life.
They said Taliban will easily enter Chitral through Lowari Pass as 
hardly five to six police personnel that too with meager arms
ammunition deployed on the way was no big threat to them.
The recent killing of nine personnel of Chitral Scouts in Dir by the 
Taliban has sparked anger throughout the serene valley.
In Chitral, they said, everybody is Afzal Khan Lala. The people of
Chitral are the most peace-loving in the whole country and any
conspiracy to sabotage the peace of teh valley would be retaliated 
with full force of the local people, they added.