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Pakistani Taliban ordered to pull back
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April 25, 2009, Saturday
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A PAKISTANI Taliban commander has ordered his men to withdraw from Buner district, a spokesman said yesterday, amid mounting alarm in the United States and Islamabad over the militants' creeping advance.
Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan said there were around 100 fighters in Buner, a district just 100 kilometers from Islamabad, and less than five hours drive from the capital.
"Our leader has ordered that Taliban should immediately be called back from Buner," Khan told Reuters.
Khan belongs to a faction led by Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah, whose stronghold is in the neighboring Swat valley.
He said the government and Taliban representatives were en route to Buner, along with a Muslim cleric who brokered the Swat deal, to deliver a message to fighters to vacate the district.
Khan was quoted in the past week as saying al-Qaida would be given refuge in lands under Taliban control.
US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has termed the government's policies of appeasement in Swat as an abdication of authority to the Taliban, while US Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged Pakistan's leaders to take action against foes who represented an "existential threat" to the state.
Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan said there were around 100 fighters in Buner, a district just 100 kilometers from Islamabad, and less than five hours drive from the capital.
"Our leader has ordered that Taliban should immediately be called back from Buner," Khan told Reuters.
Khan belongs to a faction led by Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah, whose stronghold is in the neighboring Swat valley.
He said the government and Taliban representatives were en route to Buner, along with a Muslim cleric who brokered the Swat deal, to deliver a message to fighters to vacate the district.
Khan was quoted in the past week as saying al-Qaida would be given refuge in lands under Taliban control.
US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has termed the government's policies of appeasement in Swat as an abdication of authority to the Taliban, while US Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged Pakistan's leaders to take action against foes who represented an "existential threat" to the state.
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