After all that's happened with Pakistan, especially the past week, it was alarming but more so - the urgency expressed by General Petraeus. If you haven't heard about it, he essentially says that the next two weeks are key to Pakistan's survival and the US is looking for serious action by Pakistan on the Taliban by then.
One of the military leaders that I always listen to when they speak is Petraeus, so it's even more worrying coming from who I think of as a "realist". We've been looking out for this situation to blow up and it looks like it very well could quite soon.
While Pakistan is fighting the Taliban, it's nothing large scale and is only in a small amount of areas, Swat not included. The other problem is the troops used. According to the Long War Journal, it's the "Frontier Troops" instead of the Army, a large gap in training quality/quantity. It had been warned that if Pakistan used Army troops, ethnic problems could cause the Army to literally "choose sides" and split apart. That pretty much says it all.
Good luck to Pakistan!