Administration officials in NWFP have confirmed that Taleban fighters have started to leave…

Muslim Khan said the militants had just crossed from Swat into Buner as “a gesture of solidarity” with local comrades.

He said the Taleban would be gone by Saturday but denied that the militants were leaving due to pressure from the government or under any deal…

But the BBC’s Syed Shoaib Hasan in Islamabad says circumstances suggest the militants are now under pressure and that a national consensus is building among the public and political parties that they must be challenged with force…

Sympathy for the militant movement has been on the decline, our correspondent says, since the airing of footage showing a young girl being flogged as a punishment in Swat.