Again we see muslim jihadists/terrorists targeting civilians. Not content with blowing up girls schools and beheading journalists, they turn their jihad on the families of the elected leaders of Pakistan.
Taliban: All local leaders must quit
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — A Taliban spokesman issued a series of threats and ultimatums against Pakistani officials Wednesday as the country’s military continued its offensive against the militant group in the Swat Valley.
Speaking on the telephone with CNN, Muslim Khan announced that all national and provincial parliament members from the Malakand Division, the northwestern region where the Swat Valley is located, must resign within three days.
“Otherwise, we will arrest all their families,” Khan threatened, “and we will destroy all their buildings.”
The Taliban spokesman issued a separate directive aimed at prompting a public show of support for the militants from Pakistan’s Islamist political parties. “All these parties must help the Taliban,” Khan said. “They must give a press conference to show the people that we need sharia [Islamic law] in the Malakand Division.”
Members of the Islamist party Jamaat-i-Islami have spoken out against the military’s offensive in the Swat Valley, but they have stopped short of announcing support for the Taliban.
Throughout the fighting over the past three weeks, the gray-bearded Khan has been the public face of the Taliban, enthusiastically courting local and international media in jovial telephone conversations. In an earlier phone interview with CNN, he described how he had spent four years living in the United States, working as a painter in the Boston, Massachusetts, area.
On Wednesday, Khan denied reports from many refugees emerging from the Swat Valley that Taliban militants had carried out a campaign of violence and intimidation in the region for the past two years.
Several terrified Swat residents, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal from the Taliban, described how insurgents kidnapped and killed their critics, beheaded government informers and blew up girls’ schools.
Khan denied the accusations.
What a shock! A terrorist denying his jihadi brothers’ acts of terrorism!
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