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Kill all employees of the United Nations is among the instructions issued to followers in a new fatwa that was issued in Pakistan this week.
Yet another worrisome sign that the Taliban is gaining further ground in the northwest frontier provinces of Pakistan, an extremist leader has issued a fatwa instructing followers to target and kill all employees of non-government organizations, including workers for the United Nations and human rights organizations.
The United Nations has already heeded the warning and has banned all travel for employees to the area where the fatwa was issued and has cautioned employees from traveling to nearby regions.
In his fatwa, Mufti Khalid Shah terms all employees of NGOs as agents of Jews and Christians. Shah stresses that there is no need to ask permission to kill and that everyone should declare jihad. He also adds that the time has come to use weapons of mass destruction against his enemies.
Copies of the fatwa have reportedly been posted in the mosques and markets in Darra Adam Khel, a tribal territory on the outskirts of Peshawar. The area has become the new front for the Taliban. They have forcibly closed down schools and killed a school teacher.
The Pakistani army pulled out of many of the volatile tribal areas in September after signing a truce with extremist tribal leaders there. Pakistani military leaders said at the time that the agreement was based on the tribal leaders promising not to partake in any terrorist activity there.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/death_to_un_wor.html
Yet another worrisome sign that the Taliban is gaining further ground in the northwest frontier provinces of Pakistan, an extremist leader has issued a fatwa instructing followers to target and kill all employees of non-government organizations, including workers for the United Nations and human rights organizations.
The United Nations has already heeded the warning and has banned all travel for employees to the area where the fatwa was issued and has cautioned employees from traveling to nearby regions.
In his fatwa, Mufti Khalid Shah terms all employees of NGOs as agents of Jews and Christians. Shah stresses that there is no need to ask permission to kill and that everyone should declare jihad. He also adds that the time has come to use weapons of mass destruction against his enemies.
Copies of the fatwa have reportedly been posted in the mosques and markets in Darra Adam Khel, a tribal territory on the outskirts of Peshawar. The area has become the new front for the Taliban. They have forcibly closed down schools and killed a school teacher.
The Pakistani army pulled out of many of the volatile tribal areas in September after signing a truce with extremist tribal leaders there. Pakistani military leaders said at the time that the agreement was based on the tribal leaders promising not to partake in any terrorist activity there.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/death_to_un_wor.html
