Islamabad - An Islamic organization Monday urged the Pakistan government to end its military operation against Taliban militants in the volatile north-west in order to bring peace in the region.

A spokesman for Tehrik Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammedi (TNSM), a movement seeking the enforcement of sharia law, said the agreement it had signed with the government in February was not a peace pact but one for Islamic law that it had guaranteed would bring peace.

"There has been no peace agreement between us and the provincial government. We have an agreement to enforce a system of justice based on sharia," TNSM spokesman Amir Izzat Khan told reporters in Batkhela village of the troubled Swat region.

Khan's remarks came as the militants resumed armed patrols in Mingora, Swat district's main town, raising fears that the peace deal was on the verge of collapse.

Pakistani security force launched air and ground operations last week against the rebels in Swat's adjoining districts of Buner and Lower Dir which the Taliban infiltrated despite the peace agreement.

Both districts are part of Malakand division where the authorities introduced Islamic sharia law in a bid to end months-long insurgency.

So far the military has restrained itself from retaliating to militant attacks in Swat, which used to be a tourism haven until 2007, hosting the country's lone ski resort that was destroyed by the rebels. (dpa)