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India-Pakistan
Hafiz Gul Bahadur threatens Pakistan govt
2011-11-13
[Dawn] The most powerful krazed killer leader in Pakistain's North Wazoo border region has threatened to tear up a peace accord and turn his fighters against the Islamabad government.

Hafiz Gul Bahadur
... a member of the Maddakhel clan of the Uthmanzai Wazirs. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the JUI-F political party. Upon the formation of the TTP in December 2007 he was the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo. He has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with Mehsud and is now just another al-Qaeda pawn....
has an unofficial non-aggression pact with the military.

Pakistain can't afford new krazed killer enemies. The army's hands are full with the Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP), or Taliban Movement of Pakistain, blamed for many of the suicide kabooms across the South Asian country.

Bahadur is known to have links with notorious krazed killer groups in tribal North Waziristan, including the Haqqani network.

Bahadur criticised Pak leaders for allowing the United States to conduct drone missile strikes in North Waziristan and said the council of krazed killer groups he heads would no longer hold talks with the government.

"We have been showing patience because of problems being faced by common people but now the government has also resorted to repression on our common people at the behest of foreigners," Bahadur, who heads a Pak Taliban faction, said in a statement distributed in North Waziristan.

He accused the government of firing mortar bombs and cannons on civilians and demolishing a hospital and other buildings in North Waziristan. Army officials were not immediately available for comment.

Local military officials said "terrorists" had used public buildings to launch rocket attacks at military checkpoints.

"We are disbanding the jirga (council) set up for talks with the government. If the government resorts to any repressive act in the future then it will also be very difficult for us to show patience," said Bahadur.

Bahadur, believed to have thousands of fighters, reached a peace agreement with the Pak government in 2007. But it has been strained lately.

Two holy mans who are leaders of the committee that overseas the pact, Maulana Gul Ramazan and Hafiz Noorullah Shah, suggested the army had violated the deal.
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