... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province Monday announced a bounty worth 10 million rupees (US$100,000) for information leading to the arrest or death of the Pak Taliban chief, officials said.
"The provincial government has set a bounty of RS 10 million for any information/help that can lead to the arrest or killing of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah
...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
," a bigwig in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government told AFP, requesting anonymity.
He said the government in Pakistain's restive northwest had prepared a list of 615 high profile holy warriors and was offering a combined bounty of RS760 million (US$7.5 million).
The official said the list also includes Mengal Bagh, chief of Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver....
, a Taliban-linked holy warrior group operating in the Khyber tribal district.
Mushtaq Ghani, the provincial information minister confirmed the bounty.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues...
the country's parliament deferred voting on legislation regarding the establishment of military courts for terror-related cases until Tuesday, after the chief of a religious party objected to the contents of the national plan of action.
The bill will be presented in parliament on Tuesday for voting, after which military courts will be made legal. At present the military courts deal only with cases related to the military.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
had announced the establishment of military courts for terror-related cases after a deadly Taliban attack on military-run school in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
that killed 150 people, 134 of them children.
The prime minister also ended Pakistain's six-year-old moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases last month in the wake of the slaughter at the school.
Seven convicted holy warriors have been hanged since the de facto ban on capital punishment ended. Six of those executed were found guilty of trying to assassinate the then-military dictator Musharraf in Rawalpindi in 2003 and the seventh was sentenced in connection with a 2009 attack on the army headquarters.
Pak officials have said they plan to hang 500 convicts in the coming weeks, drawing condemnation from international human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
campaigners.
