Why aren't we helping Swat and FATA?

The situation in the Swat area is unspeakable. A phone call from a lady in the Malakand area is a cry of distress. On both sides of their village a battle is raging. Villages are attacked at night; looting is carried out and women dishonoured. Their men and women used to make a living by weaving; now there are no buyers for their products.
The militants hang bodies on poles, and the punishment for removing a body is death. (This reminded this scribe of the times when Romans hung people up on crucifixes to die, and the punishment for removing anyone from there was death. God in his Heavens! We have gone two thousand years back).
Similarly, a noted social worker of Peshawar has rung up her counterpart in Lahore to say: looting and terror has reached Peshawar. O people of Punjab, when will you rise, to save us from this wretched fate?
The account of the situation in Swat by Zubair Torwali is equally depressing. The capital Mingora has virtually fallen to the militants. Policemen themselves have to be escorted by army personnel! The busiest square has been renamed as Khooni Chowk because every morning a few bodies, usually headless, are found hung over poles; more bodies are scattered over the footpaths. Similar numbers of bodies are found in other towns.
The government's writ is all but non-existent. The militants have set January 15 as the deadline for closing all schools, specially girls' schools; as the deadline approaches, the people are getting terrified. Nazims have been killed, women are not allowed to visit bazaars, which are in any case deserted.
NGOs have stopped working. Most bridges have been destroyed. Phones outside the town have been non-functional for months. The power infrastructure has been badly affected and curfew confines people inside their homes for days on end. Taliban are gaining strength, aided by the FM radio. Security forces' checkposts are of no use. The victors are the Taliban and the losers the people of Swat. The situation of the people is worse than in Gaza, because over there at least they know who their enemy is.