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Taliban Close In On Islamabad224 days ago
(RTTNews) - Taliban militants have closed in on the Pakistani capital Islamabad after consolidating their position in a vast swathe of the country's restive northwest, reports say.
The disturbing development came even as the Taliban threatened to walk out of a peace deal in the Swat valley accusing the federal government of insincerity in ratifying the pact.
A large group of suspected Taliban fighters has moved into the Buner area, a peaceful district just 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Islamabad, despite local elders asking them to move out, and sparked fears that they could next move on to the federal capital.
"The day is not far when Islamabad will be in the hands of the Mujahideen," a prominent Pakistani newspaper Thursday quoted Taliban commander Mullah Nazeer Ahmed as saying.
Tense calm prevailed as armed militants expanded their activities to Bagra and Kalabatt areas of Buner despite repeated calls by the Quami Jirga (elders' council) to vacate the district, the newspaper said.
Meanwhile, uncertainty in the Swat valley loomed Thursday after a radical cleric who had brokered a peace deal with the Taliban in Swat shut down his camp in the area.
However, Maulana Sufi Mohammad of the Tehrik-e-Nifaz e Shariah-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) said he was not pulling out of the deal but was only shutting his peace camp in the area. The cleric, who maintains that peace could not return to the region unless Sharia laws were in place, said that while the NWFP government was sincere in implementing the pact, the federal government was dragging its feet on ratifying the accord.
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