Reports started coming in early on Saturday that thousands of troops had started moving towards the Taliban-controlled tribal belt fromthreedirections.
As well as trying to cope with the coalition's self-inflicted wounds, the Christian Social Union sees its support being nibbled away fromthree different directions.
She measured my head from various directions front to back, side to side and began attaching electrodes: three on the back of my scalp, two on each temple, three more on my chin, two on each leg, and two on my chest.