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| Jail or jihad: an offer Taliban cannot refuse |
| 2009-10-10 |
| Pakistan is offering captured Taliban militants the option of fighting Indian troops in Kashmir as an alternative to jail, Indian officials say. Officials said the militants were offered a ''jail or jihad'' choice by officers of Pakistan's ISI intelligence service and that the plot had been discovered through telephone intercepts. They alleged that 60 Taliban fighters captured in the Pakistan army's offensive in the Swat Valley earlier this year had accepted the deal and were waiting with an estimated 300 jihadi fighters to cross into Kashmir. ''Although the Taliban is yet to successfully infiltrate into India, the coming days will pose a challenge as their attempts to sneak in are expected before the onset of winter,'' one official said. Many Kashmiri militants are believed to have joined the Taliban and al-Qaeda groups after Islamabad was forced to shut down their ISI-sponsored training camps under US pressure following the September 11 attacks. |
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