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Pakistan pays $120,000 for Taliban henchman: military
Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has paid out the equivalent of nearly $120,000 over the arrest of a lieutenant of the country's Taliban warlord ahead of Eid, the military said Thursday.
It is the first time Pakistan has announced the payment of a reward since it offered five million dollars for information leading to the capture, dead or alive, of Hakimullah Mehsud and 18 lieutenants.
'Security forces have arrested wanted terrorist Abdullah Shah Mehsud' in the northwestern town of Tank.
'He had a head money of Rs10 million,' the military said in a statement.
'The head money has been paid to the informer.'
Shah Mehsud was number 17 on a list of wanted militants released on November 2 that carried rewards of between Rs10 and Rs50 million for the leadership of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
TTP has been blamed for some of the worst attacks that have killed more than 2,550 people in a wave of carnage in the last 29 months in Pakistan.
Around 2,000 troops have died fighting militants since 2002.
Pakistani paramilitary and army soldiers are pursuing a major offensive against TTP strongholds in South Waziristan, part of a tribal belt where US officials say Al-Qaeda fighters are plotting attacks on the West.
Violence has surged in Pakistan since the military launched the air and ground assault on October 17.
Six militants were killed on Thursday during an encounter with Pakistani troops in the Mamray area of Khyber, the tribal district which straddles the main Nato supply line into Afghanistan, said the paramilitary Frontier Corps.
Pakistani troops opened a new front against militants in Khyber on Tuesday and have been drawn increasingly into clashes with fighters elsewhere in the tribal belt with Taliban foot soldiers reportedly escaping from Waziristan.-AFP
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Pakistan pays $120,000 for Taliban henchman: military
Pakistan pays $120,000 for Taliban henchman: military
Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has paid out the equivalent of nearly $120,000 over the arrest of a lieutenant of the country's Taliban warlord ahead of Eid, the military said Thursday.
It is the first time Pakistan has announced the payment of a reward since it offered five million dollars for information leading to the capture, dead or alive, of Hakimullah Mehsud and 18 lieutenants.
'Security forces have arrested wanted terrorist Abdullah Shah Mehsud' in the northwestern town of Tank.
'He had a head money of Rs10 million,' the military said in a statement.
'The head money has been paid to the informer.'
Shah Mehsud was number 17 on a list of wanted militants released on November 2 that carried rewards of between Rs10 and Rs50 million for the leadership of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
TTP has been blamed for some of the worst attacks that have killed more than 2,550 people in a wave of carnage in the last 29 months in Pakistan.
Around 2,000 troops have died fighting militants since 2002.
Pakistani paramilitary and army soldiers are pursuing a major offensive against TTP strongholds in South Waziristan, part of a tribal belt where US officials say Al-Qaeda fighters are plotting attacks on the West.
Violence has surged in Pakistan since the military launched the air and ground assault on October 17.
Six militants were killed on Thursday during an encounter with Pakistani troops in the Mamray area of Khyber, the tribal district which straddles the main Nato supply line into Afghanistan, said the paramilitary Frontier Corps.
Pakistani troops opened a new front against militants in Khyber on Tuesday and have been drawn increasingly into clashes with fighters elsewhere in the tribal belt with Taliban foot soldiers reportedly escaping from Waziristan.-AFP
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Pakistan pays $120,000 for Taliban henchman: military
