How not to stop militancy

The Pakistan Army is struggling in Swat and Bajaur, the restive North Western areas of the country, to destroy the hideouts of militants. The Air Force has also joined them.
However, the big question is: if the armed forces succeed in ending the present turmoil, will the problem be sorted out forever? Dealing with militants militarily is, of course, indispensable in the present circumstances, but it amounts to suppressing the fever and not treating the infection, or the cancer, causing the fever.
There are three main factors behind the unending replenishment of manpower to militants. Firstly, myopia of successive Pakistani governments vis-à-vis mushroom growth of madrassas which are in thousands now across the country. The main bastions of the seminaries are the tribal areas, situated at the Afghan border and governed directly by the federal government, settled districts of North Western province and fertile vast plains of South Punjab. If lack of modern education is the reason in the tribal and north-western areas, perpetuation of feudalism and the resultant poverty are the source of problem in South Punjab.
Secondly, unlike India, where land-ownership pattern was drastically changed by the policy makers soon after the partition of the sub-continent, the anachronistic feudal system in Pakistan continues to plague the economy as well as the social set-up. In Indian Punjab, the ceiling of ownership of agricultural land is 24 acres per family whereas in Pakistan sky is the limit. Presence of dynasties in elected bodies, starting with local institutions right up to the top forums, is one of the many fallouts of the ever green Pakistani feudalism. South Punjab is the worst hit area in this context. The primitive land ownership- pattern, illiteracy and poverty are coercing masses to send children to seminaries where lodging and three meals a day are free.
Sending four to ten years old children to the Gulf States to 'work' as camel jockeys can also be attributed to the same set of factors. Countless seminaries of South Punjab are playing the role of nurseries for un-ending number of militants.