 A negotiating team led by tribal clerics to get former Guantanamo Bay inmate Abdullah Mehsud to surrender has not yet made any progress, Brig (r) Mehmood Shah, the security chief of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, told Daily Times on Tuesday. Abdullah, the one-legged militant, had been asked by the military to surrender by today (Wednesday) or face a "military onslaught" for kidnapping two Chinese engineers in October last year. Tribal clerics met Peshawar Corps Commander Lt Gen Safdar Hussain — who is also in charge of military operations in South Waziristan Agency — in Peshawar and asked him to give them 10 days more to negotiate Abdullah's surrender, the earlier deadline being January 15. Lt Gen Hussain agreed with the clerics and extended the deadline to January 26.
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