Hat tip to Circling the Lion's Den for this pointer:
Jeffrey Dressler at the Institute for the Study of War on the Pakistan Army's current offensive in Kurram in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) says that the insurgency in Afghanistan's Eastern region is likely to benefit from the action.
Which concludes:
Dressler makes it clear that the Pakistani military has little interest in curbing militancy in the region. It is simply taking on those elements of the TTP that have turned on their former mentors, solely in order to strengthen the insurgency in Afghanistan.
Link:http://circlingthelionsden.blogspot....ensive-in.html

Link to the cited Dressler report:http://www.understandingwar.org/file...mOffensive.pdf