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The target of the attack, Mullah Tamanchey, directed a deadly assault against a convoy carrying a polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
vaccination team and security forces on Saturday in which 12 people were killed, the military said. "The government is not going to tolerate any act of terror and any act will be replied to," said a Pak security official who asked not to be identified. Hours after the attack on the convoy, the Taliban had said they would observe a one-month ceasefire to try to revive peace talks that failed last month.
It also called on other bad boy groups to observe the ceasefire. A government negotiator told Rooters they were open to restarting peace talks as long as the Taliban and its affiliates honoured the ceasefire. Tahir Ashrafi, head of the country's largest alliance of holy mans, said that the Taliban should release kidnap victims, safeguard polio workers and produce the bodies of slain paramilitary forces to demonstrate their sincerity.
The government should release suspected turbans from prison if there was no evidence against them, he said. The Pak Taliban says it is fighting to overthrow the democratically elected government of 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...
and replace it with a state ruled under Islamic law. Nawaz has been pursuing peace talks since he was elected in May. Soon after the talks finally began on February 6 the Taliban bombed a police bus in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, killing 13 people.
The talks foundered days later when a Taliban faction claimed to have killed 23 paramilitary forces. The same night the military began bombing areas in the northwest that it said were bad boy hideouts. In recent weeks speculation has been mounting that the military would launch a ground operation in North
Wazoo, a tribal region along the border with Afghanistan. US generals serving in Afghanistan have often complained that Pakistain, while fighting the Pak Taliban, has allowed other bad boy groups to have safe havens in its tribal regions. Mullah Tamanchey, the target of Sunday's bombing, is the leader of a small bad boy faction affiliated with the Taliban and opposed polio vaccination. Meanwhile,
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a Taliban capo was killed in firing at a gathering in Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
on Sunday. According to police, gunnies fired on a gathering in Golachi area of Dera Ismail Khan. In retaliatory fire by the other side, one of the gunnies was killed. Police said the slain terrorist was identified as Aslam Gandapar, a local Taliban capo.