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| Pakistan pays $128,770 for Taliban henchman: military |
| 2009-11-26 |
| PAKISTAN has paid an informer the equivalent of nearly $US120,000 ($128,770) after arresting a lieutenant of the country's Taliban warlord before a major Muslim festival, the military says. It is the first time Pakistan has announced paying a reward since it offered $US5 million ($5.37 million) for information leading to the capture, dead or alive, of Hakimullah Mehsud and 18 lieutenants. "Security forces have arrested wanted terrorist Abdullah Shah Mehsud" in the northwestern town of Tank. "He had a head money of 10 million rupees," the military said in a statement today. "The head money has been paid to the informer." Shah Mehsud was number 17 on a list of wanted militants released on November 2 that carried rewards of between 10 and 50 million rupees for the leadership of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). TTP has been blamed for some of the worst attacks that have killed more than 2550 people in a wave of carnage in the last 29 months in Pakistan. About 2000 troops have died fighting Islamist militants since 2002. |
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