After a series of deadly suicide attacks by the taliban last week, the Pakistani government has banned the terrorist group. The ban will allow the Pakistani government to freeze the taliban's bank accounts and assests.
After almost 7 years of being our ally in the war on terror has Pakistan decided to ban the taliban. But maybe now the Pakistani government is serious about defeating the taliban. Only time will tell. BBC
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Pakistan has banned the Taleban militant group which has been behind many suicide attacks in the country since 2007.
The Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP) will have its bank accounts and assets frozen, the interior ministry said."We have banned Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan because of their involvement in a series of suicide attacks," interior ministry chief Rehman Malik said.
"They themselves have claimed responsibility of several suicide attacks and the government cannot engage in a dialogue with such people," he said.
Mr Malik said the Taleban had "created mayhem against the public life".
A ministry official told the BBC that the state bank had been asked to freeze any accounts the organisation might have.
The Pakistan Taleban is fighting for an Islamic state. They see it as their religious duty to fight the international forces currently in Afghanistan, the BBC's Charles Haviland in Islamabad says.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Pakistan Bans Taliban
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I smell some retaliation !
This could get ugly!
Oh yeah. I think what happens in Pakistan within the year will be critical to taking out the taliban
It's amazing that the Pakistanis can abide the Pashtun, who threaten the stability of the government, the country's territorial integrity, and have turned the populace ever closer toward sanctimonious, parochial ethno-fascism. Not that anyone in the region would know a Quran from a camel. That the Pakistanis tolerate the Pashtun criminals suggests this Islamic state, carved out of British India for petty nationalist reasons, is a one-trick pony with absolutely no redeeming sense of what truly is in the national interest. Pakistan will go the way of either Serbia or Haiti, with US special forces safeguarding the country's nuclear arsenal from a deranged populace of murderers and holier-than-thou pedophiles. One has to wonder whether Pa6kistanis nowadays do not look upon India's Muslims with great envy at the relative peace and stability of that society, petty and venal though it may be.
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