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| Pakistan Taliban demand prisoner swap deal |
| 2011-09-09 |
| [Dawn] The Pak Taliban who are holding more than 20 young rustics hostage in an area straddling the border with Afghanistan have demanded the release of scores of prisoners and an end to tribal elders' support of offensives against them. The teenage rustics from Pakistain's northwestern Bajaur tribal region were kidnapped by the snuffies last week while they were on an outing in Afghanistan's border province of Kunar on the Mohammedan festival of Eid. "If the Pakistain government and the tribal elders don't respond to our demands, we will not free the boys," Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban capo in Bajaur, told a group of news hounds who were taken to a border hideout on Tuesday. Four of the 23 prisoners who were between the age of 15 to 21 were shown to news hounds during the visit to the area between Marah Warah district in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral... and the Bajaur tribal region. More then 30 snuffies armed with heavy and light guns accompanied the Taliban capo and the young prisoners who were crying. Dadullah demanded the release of prisoners including women and kiddies jugged in jails in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, the main city in the Pak northwest and Bajaur region. He also demanded that the government provide compensation for the houses destroyed in Pak military operations in Bajaur. He said Taliban's shura will decide the fate of the prisoners if there was no response from the authorities or the tribal elders. Under centuries-old tribal customs, rustics living along the frontier can freely move across the border. A Pak military front man said last week that 40 young rustics were kidnapped. He said 10 of the boys were released while 30 were still in jug. They belonged to the ethnic Pashtun Mamoun tribe, which is opposed to al Qaeda and the Taliban and has raised militias to fight them. Bajaur has long been an infiltration route for snuffies entering Afghanistan to fight US-led forces there. Afghan president Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... on Wednesday asked the head of the Kunar provincial council and the elders of the area to help secure the release of the boys. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 i demand every paki piece of shit just kill themself, problem solved |
| Posted by: chris 2011-09-09 02:12 |