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Nov 2, 2009
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Pakistan is offering S$7 million for the capture of Taleban warlord Hakimullah Mehsud. -- PHOTO: AFP
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ISLAMABAD - PAKISTAN on Monday offered rewards worth US$5 million (S$7 million) for information leading to the capture, dead or alive, of the country's Taleban warlord Hakimullah Mehsud and 18 lieutenants. The rewards for top-ranking Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP) militants were offered in a black-and-white government advertisement on the front page of The News daily and flashed on Pakistani television channels overnight. Mehsud, who took on the leadership mantle after a US drone attack killed his predecessor Baitullah Mehsud in August, headed the list with 50 million Pakistan rupees (S$835,000) slapped on his head, along with Wali-ur Rehman Mehsud, head of the Baitullah Mehsud faction in South Waziristan and considered a contender for the TTP succession, and Qari Hussain Mehsud, commander for his hometown, Kotkai. TTP has been blamed for some of the worst attacks in Pakistan, which have killed around 2,400 people in a deadly wave of carnage over the past two years. The hardcore faction has also claimed responsibility for many strikes in a recent surge in bloodshed, in which more than 300 people died last month, as the military launched a ground offensive against the TTP in South Waziristan. 'The activities of these brutal people, who have no fear of God, are bringing a bad name - not only to the Mehsud tribe but all tribesmen... and also give a bad name to Pakistan in the whole world. These people certainly need just punishment. They are the killers of humanity. Help the government of Pakistan to annihilate them,' said the advert. - AFP.
Nov 2, 2009
$7m bounty for Mehsud <!--10 min-->
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Pakistan is offering S$7 million for the capture of Taleban warlord Hakimullah Mehsud. -- PHOTO: AFP
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ISLAMABAD - PAKISTAN on Monday offered rewards worth US$5 million (S$7 million) for information leading to the capture, dead or alive, of the country's Taleban warlord Hakimullah Mehsud and 18 lieutenants. The rewards for top-ranking Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP) militants were offered in a black-and-white government advertisement on the front page of The News daily and flashed on Pakistani television channels overnight. Mehsud, who took on the leadership mantle after a US drone attack killed his predecessor Baitullah Mehsud in August, headed the list with 50 million Pakistan rupees (S$835,000) slapped on his head, along with Wali-ur Rehman Mehsud, head of the Baitullah Mehsud faction in South Waziristan and considered a contender for the TTP succession, and Qari Hussain Mehsud, commander for his hometown, Kotkai. TTP has been blamed for some of the worst attacks in Pakistan, which have killed around 2,400 people in a deadly wave of carnage over the past two years. The hardcore faction has also claimed responsibility for many strikes in a recent surge in bloodshed, in which more than 300 people died last month, as the military launched a ground offensive against the TTP in South Waziristan. 'The activities of these brutal people, who have no fear of God, are bringing a bad name - not only to the Mehsud tribe but all tribesmen... and also give a bad name to Pakistan in the whole world. These people certainly need just punishment. They are the killers of humanity. Help the government of Pakistan to annihilate them,' said the advert. - AFP.
