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Some residents of South Waziristan remain wary of their own military, which is sometimes seen as the heavy hand of the nation's dominant Punjab class used against the country's Pashtun population, a large ethnic group from which the Taliban draws most of its fighters.
WSJ: In Former Taliban Sanctuary, an Eerie Silence Takes Over
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Pushtuns are a large minority in Pakistan and the biggest ethnic group in Afghanistan.
ECONOMIST: Pakistan and India
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The commonly used index of segregation, which measures the number of people who would have to move in order to spread themselves evenly over a city, shows that every large ethnic minority group became less segregated between 1991 and 2001.
ECONOMIST: Race