Pakistan offers cash for data on pro-Taliban leaders

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Mon Nov 2, 2009

Pakistan has offered rewards worth five million dollars for information leading to the capture of a number of militant commanders.

"Anyone who captures these people dead or alive or provides concrete information, the government will award them a cash reward," said an Urdu language advertisement on Pakistani TV channels.

The largest rewards were offered for the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, and senior leaders Wali ur-Rehman Mehsud and Qari Hussain Mehsud, once described as a master trainer of suicide bombers.

A reward of 50-million Pakistani rupees (about 0.6 million US dollars) was offered for the capture of the three TTP leaders.

Pakistan says the militants are involved in daily attacks which have so far resulted in the death of around 2,400 people in the country.

The rewards were announced less than a week after at least 118 people were killed last Wednesday when a massive car bomb flattened a market street in the northwest city of Peshawar.

In the meantime, Pakistan has called for regional cooperation to eliminate terrorists, as it is unable to take on the task on its own.

The Pakistani Foreign Affairs Minister Shah Mahmoud Qureshi has said that the terrorists had been obtaining money through various illegal activities, such as drug smuggling, to finance their campaign of terror which could not be curbed by Pakistan alone.

Source: PressTV.
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