In most places it’s an unremarkable scene. But here - as the bright, attentive eyes of young girls take in the detail of a reading class – it’s powerful, poignant and hopeful. For this is a western extremity of Pakistan where until recently a particularly brutal, local brand of the Taliban enforced their ruthless view of the world, one in which girls are denied a modern education. The army has driven the extremists from the town and villages here but how long will their hold last and how long will the young girls of South Waziristan go to school?