27.11.12

Pak Taliban threatens Indians


The Pakistani Taliban has pledged to attack Indian targets “anywhere” to avenge the execution of Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor of the terrorist squad responsible for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, and demanded that Kasab’s body be returned to Pakistan for an “Islamic burial”.
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said the TTP would conduct various attacks in India and anywhere to avenge the hanging of Kasab, without elaborating further. The TTP, closely linked to al-Qaida, operates from Pakistan’s ungoverned tribal belt along the country’s border with Afghanistan.
 “TTP demands that Kasab’s body be returned to Pakistan for an Islamic burial,” Ehsan said. “If they don’t return his body to us or his family, we will capture Indians and not return their bodies,” he warned. The Taliban will try to strike Indian targets anywhere, he added.
He also criticised the Pakistan government for failing to ask India to return Kasab’s body after Indian authorities said Wednesday that Kasab was buried on the premises of Pune's Yerawada prison. Indian authorities did not specify what burial rites were performed.

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