Pakistan Taliban threaten to attack Indians ‘anywhere’

Pakistan Taliban threaten to attack Indians ‘anywhere’

Seek Kasab’s Body For Islamic Burial

Omer Farooq Khan TNN 

Islamabad: The Pakistani Taliban on Thursday vowed to attack Indian targets “anywhere” to avenge the execution of Ajmal Kasab, the lonesurvivor of the terrorist squad responsible for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. The outfit demanded that Kasab’s body be returned to Pakistan for an “Islamic burial”.
    Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said the TTP would mount attacks in India and anywhere to avenge the hanging of Kasab, without elaborating. The TTP, linked to al-Qaida, operates from Pakistan’s ungoverned tribal belt along the Afghanistan border.
    Ehsan warned, “If India does not return Kasab’s body to us or his family, we will capture Indians and not return their bodies.” He criticized Pakistan for not asking India to return Kasab’s body after Indian authorities said on Wednesday that the terrorist had been buried in the Yerawada jail premises in Pune where he was hanged. Indian authorities did not specify what burial rites were performed.
    Pakistan has tightened security at the Indian embassy in Islamabad following Delhi’s request for extra cover for its diplomats. Indian deputy high commissioner Gopal Baglay met his counterpart in the Pakistan foreign office Zohra Akbari, DG, South Asia, a day before Kasab’s hanging, and handed a ‘note verbale’ requesting extra security.
    Diplomatic sources confirmed that security measures at the Indian high commission had been tightened further.
    Foreign secretary J A Jillani said, “I am not aware of the threats that you are8 referring to, but as far as we are concerned, our position on the issue of terrorism has been consistent — we have condemned terrorism in Pakistan or in any part of the world . As far as the question of security is concerned, the government of Pakistan is doing everything despite all the challenges to provide security not only to our own people but also to members of the diplomatic community.” 
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