Pakistani Taliban have threatened to launch retaliatory attacks in several cities in the NWFP including Peshawar if the government does not end the military action against them, reported BBC Urdu on Friday.Talking to a journalist in Peshawar, Taliban Movement of Pakistan spokesman for the settled areas Ghazi Ahmad said that the Taliban organisation had given a seven-day period to the government to end the ongoing military operation in Swat, South Waziristan and other tribal areas. “If the government does not end the operation in the given time, we will attack several districts in the NWFP including the provincial capital,” the spokesman said. The Taliban threat comes a day after jet planes allegedly bombarded certain areas in the South Waziristan Agency.
Various Taliban groups active in the Tribal Areas and the NWFP formed the Taliban Movement of Pakistan last month. The Taliban head in South Waziristan, Baitullah Mehsud, was chosen to head the movement.