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announcement in an evening TV address to the nation.
Fighting has intensified in recent days in the Swat Valley and other parts of the north-west, and thousands of civilians are leaving the area.
US defence secretary Robert Gates earlier said he was satisfied with Pakistan's anti-Taleban moves.
He said there was "very little chance" of the Taleban achieving the kind of success in Pakistan that they would need to get access to the country's nuclear weapons.
At least 10 soldiers have been killed and nine wounded in the fighting in the past 24 hours, the Pakistani military says.
I read with some interest a report in the paper about a small action in Pakistan. Apparently the Taliban wanted to take over a village in Pakistan but the locals fought back, 5 Taliban were killed and 7 wounded. What I found interesting was that the men of the village were at a gathering and it was the women of the village who did the fighting, without loss to themselves.
I recognise that this was a very small action but when the people fight back, not because they are paid to or because they are part of a malitia, you can be sure that the uprising is in some trouble.
It has been reported today that the taliban group that caused one of the recent suicide bombings in Pakistan has been attacked by the local tribal group supported by the Pakistan Airforces and has been driven out of the area with the loss of its two leaders.
Its looking as if the Taliban are not having it all their own way in Pakistan and once again its the locals who are taking a leading part. Hats off to them all.