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“In the name of an antimilitant drive, the government is arresting opposition activists, including B.N.P. and other antigovernment people,” said Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the party’s senior joint secretary general.

The public outcry was a tremendous lift to the military and its antimilitant operations — which many had earlier complained were halfhearted at best — against the Pakistani Taliban and some of their allies.

But he was skeptical that the arrests signaled a major, new antimilitant resolve in Turkey.

Conditions are particularly difficult in the Swat Valley, where Ms. Yousafzai lived until the 2012 attack, because of continuing insecurity and because civilian authority is largely subordinate to the military, which mounted a major antimilitant operation in the valley in 2009.

In the Taliban’s cruel calculus, those children’s bodies went toward balancing accounts with the Pakistani military, still pressing its antimilitant offensive in the northwestern tribal region.