Fighting for Food in Pakistan

NYT

``Flood victims scrambled for food Monday. A relief effort has opened a new front against militants for the nation’s army. ''

``Taliban insurgents, meanwhile, are intent on continuing their campaign of violence, yet they seem to be aiming at soft targets, using sleeper cells to set off car bombs and suicide attacks rather than instigating direct military clashes with the army, General Abbas said. There have been several serious suicide bomb attacks in the cities, he said, but no significant ground action by militants since the onset of the floods. ''