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2009-06-03 India-Pakistan
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Pakistan vows to curb Jundullah terror group
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Pakistan vows to wipe out a shadowy rebel group which has used the country's territories as a pad to launch attacks inside the Iranian border areas.
| Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed in a report in July 2008 that US congressional leaders had secretly agreed to former president George W. Bush's USD 400 million funding request, which gives the US a free hand in arming and funding terrorist groups such as Jundullah militants. |
Pakistan's Dawn News revealed on Tuesday that Islamabad's interior ministry presented all its information on Jundullah to the country's intelligence services in order to root out the terror networks and its members from Pakistani soil. The developments come as a bomb blast rocked a mosque in the Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday night as mourners participated in a ceremony marking the death of the daughter of the prophet of Islam.
The Jundullah terror group claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack that lead to martyrdom of 25 faithful believers and injured 125 others. A second explosive was also defused at the mosque within minutes of the explosion. The group's spokesman Abdolrauf Rigi contacted the Pakistan-based office of the Saudi's al-Arabiya television network to report a bombing in a mosque in the Sistan-Balouchestan province.
The senior officials in Islamabad have also urged Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and its sister organization for the identification of group members and the immediate arrest of the ringleader Abdulmalek Rigi.
Based on the report, Pakistan and Iran had joined forces 'in combating insecurity' since President Asif Ali Zardari-led government took over last year in Islamabad. The report also quoted Iranian sources as saying that a number of rebels detained in Pakistan have been extradited to Iran within this new framework over some past months.
Iran had located the bases of the group and informed the Pakistani government of Abdulmalek Rigi's position, according to General Hassan Firouzabadi, the chief of the Iranian armed forces. This is while Pakistan Interior Ministry Chief Rehman Malik has ordered the group be disbanded and wiped out following terror activities in the region.
Iran's Foreign Minister says Jundullah has ties with foreign forces based in neighboring Afghanistan. "We believe Rigi's terror network is linked with some foreign forces in Afghanistan," Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters on Monday.
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed in a report in July 2008 that US congressional leaders had secretly agreed to former president George W. Bush's USD 400 million funding request, which gives the US a free hand in arming and funding terrorist groups such as Jundullah militants.
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