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| Taliban threaten polling day suicide attacks | |
| 2013-05-10 | |
[Pak Daily Times] The Taliban have sent jacket wallahs to mount election-day attacks on Pakistain's historic polls, a myrmidon commander said on Thursday, following a bloody campaign which has claimed more than 100 lives.
They have directly threatened the Pakistain People's Party (PPP) and its main partners in the outgoing government, seriously restricting their ability to campaign, and staged a series of attacks during the campaign. The Death Eaters' leader Hakimullah Mehsud had personally ordered suicide kabooms on polling day, said a Taliban capo in the northwest. "The Taliban has dispatched several of fedayeen (suicide bombers) to carry attacks on election across Pakistain," he told AFP on condition of anonymity. AFP saw a copy of a letter apparently sent from Mehsud to Taliban front man Ehsanullah Ehsan, mapping out the plan for bombings. "You take care of attacks in Punjab and Sindh. I will take care of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... ," it said in reference to Pakistain's four provinces. "We don't accept the system of infidels which is called democracy," Mehsud said in the letter, dated May 1, and obtained by Rooters on Thursday. Attacks on politicians and political parties, most of them claimed by the Taliban, have already killed 113 people since mid-April, according to an AFP tally. Pakistain has said it will deploy more than 600,000 security personnel on polling day. | |
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