not really. Every major operation brought peace for years. The problem started when terrorist sympathisers got the heebie jeebies and pushed for talks, deals and another ''fresh start'' with the TTP & their kin.
And why wouldn’t they?, almost 80% of PTI’s provincial cabinet has been involved in smuggling in one form or another, and many of these networks cannot survive without cooperation across the Afghan border.
The operations always worked.... It was the smugglers, sympathisers and political idiots who kept undoing their gains.