NEW YORK The Taliban militants have organized landless tenants against wealthy landlords in a strategy that poses broad dangers for the rest of Pakistan, a leading American newspaper reported Friday. "The Taliban have advanced deeper into Pakistan by engineering a class revolt that exploits profound fissures between a small group of wealthy landlords and their landless tenants," The New York Times said in a dispatch from Peshawar, citing Pakistani government officials and analysts. The strategy cleared a path to power for the Taliban in the Swat Valley, where the government allowed sharia law to be imposed this week, the newspaper said. "And it carries broad dangers for the rest of Pakistan, particularly the militants' main goal, the populous heartland of Punjab Province," the report warned. The Taliban's ability to exploit class divisions adds a new dimension to the insurgency and is raising alarm about the risks to Pakistan, which remains largely feudal, the paper said. The Times cited analysts and other government officials as warning that the strategy executed in Swat is easily transferable to Punjab, saying that the province, where militant groups are already showing strength, is ripe for the same social upheavals that have convulsed Swat and the tribal areas. The Times cited Mahboob Mahmood, a Pakistani-American lawyer and former classmate of President Barack Obama as saying: "The people of Pakistan are psychologically ready for a revolution." Sunni militancy is taking advantage of deep class divisions that have long festered in Pakistan, he said. "The militants, for their part, are promising more than just proscriptions on music and schooling," he said, "They are also promising Islamic justice, effective government and economic redistribution." The Taliban strategy in Swat, an area of 1.3 million people with fertile orchards, vast plots of timber and valuable emerald mines, unfolded in stages over five years, the Times said citing unnamed analysts. The momentum of the insurgency built in the past two years, when the Taliban, reinforced by seasoned fighters from the tribal areas with links to Al Qaeda, fought the Pakistani Army to a standstill, a Pakistani intelligence agent who works in the Swat region was quoted as saying. Since the Taliban fought the military to a truce in Swat in February, the militants have deepened their approach and made clear who is in charge, the Times said. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reported from Mingora that thousands of militants are pouring into the Swat Valley and setting up training camps here, quickly making it one of the main bases for Taliban fighters and raising their threat to the government in the wake of a controversial peace deal. President Asif Ali Zardari effectively ratified the government's deal with the Taliban Monday by signing a bill that imposes Islamic law in Swat, a key plank of the accord, hours after legislators overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging it. "Yet a visit to the Taliban-controlled valley here found mounting evidence that the deal already is strengthening the militants as a base for war. U.S. officials contend the pact has given the Taliban and its allies in al Qaeda and other Islamist groups an advantage in their long-running battle against Pakistan's military," the Journal said. "The number of militants in the valley swelled in the months before the deal with the Taliban was struck, and they continue to move in", the newspaper saod, citing Pakistani and U.S. officials. They now estimate there are between 6,000 and 8,000 fighters in Swat, nearly double the number at the end of last year. "Taliban leaders here make no secret of their ultimate aim. "Our objective is to drive out Americans and their lackeys" from Pakistan and Afghanistan, Muslim Khan, a spokesman for the group, was quoted as saying. "They are not Muslims and we have to throw them out." Militant training camps are springing up across the valley's thickly forested mountainsides, the Journal said.