Pakistan on Thursday put bounties onthe heads of 21 top Taliban militants operating in the Swat Valley.
Pakistan on Thursday put bounties onthe heads of 21 top Taliban militants operating in the Swat Valley with radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah, the architect of uprising in Swat, heading the list with a reward of five million rupees.
The government drew up the 'rogue list' and published it alongwith their mugshots in all leading newspapers in the country, saying these terrorists were wanted "dead or alive" as its military operation gained ground in Swat.
Also on the rogue's list are Taliban's spokesman Muslim Khan and along with three other prominent Taliban faces in Swat -- Commander Qari Mushtaq, Mehmood Khan and Bukht Farzand -- each with a reward of three million rupees on their
heads.
This is first time Pakistan government has moved to put these terrorist leaders, who all form part of Tehrik-e- Taliban, on the wanted list and it comes after Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that yesterday's massive bomb attack at ISI office in Lahore was a handiwork of these insurgents.
"People providing authentic information leading to the capture -- dead or alive -- of these individuals will receive a cash award," said a pictorial announcement by the government in all leading papers.
The advertisement also carried the verses from Holy Quran that said, "do not spread anarchy on the land."
The government advertisement said, "can the people who deprive mothers, sisters and daughters of their roots and render them homeless in their own country be called Muslims and patriotic Pakistanis?
"Such people are killers of humanity and deserve punishment."
Pakistani army in their operations in Swat are monitoring the movements of Fazlullah also known as Mulana FM.
However, the government has not announced similar bounty for the Tehrik-e-Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.
A group calling itself Tehrik-e-Taliban Punjab claimed the responsibility for the Lahore blast on Wednesday which killed 35 people and injured 400 others.
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