ISLAMABAD: The Federal government on Saturday announced Rs.10 million reward, security, employment for the individual who would spy for the government against Taliban.

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik while seeking nation’s support against Taliban said the government would also facilitate the informer to settle in any foreign country if he/she fears that Taliban can hurt them.He said the government has broken the back of Taliban and they are breathing their last adding that the desperate Taliban were carrying out terrorist activities against innocent people in mosques, holy shrines and in public places.
He expressed the government resolve to wipe out these Taliban from the country.

‘The government will make arrangements to settle the informers and their families anywhere in the country, even abroad, if they fear that Taliban might hurt them,’ interior minister Rehman Malik told reporters.

Mr Malik said that most Taliban belonged to the banned Sunni militant outfits of Laskhar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is regarded as Pakistan’s most extreme Sunni outfit, accused of killing hundreds of minority Shiite Muslims after its emergence in the early 1990s. It was banned by then president Pervez Musharraf in 1999.

The group played a key role in the 2002 kidnap and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl from Karachi and in twin failed assassination bids on key US ally Musharraf in December 2003.

Around 4,000 people have been killed in suicide and bomb attacks that have been blamed on homegrown Taleban and other militant networks across Pakistan since government forces raided an extremist mosque in Islamabad in July 2007. — AFP

According to the BBC News Police in Pakistan have prevented two would-be suicide bombers from attacking a mosque in the capital Islamabad, officials say.

One of the two men was wearing an explosives vest and was on his way to bomb a mosque during Friday prayers, a police official said.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the place of worship was in the upmarket F8-1 residential neighbourhood.

The district is home to many wealthy Pakistanis and Westerners.

Authorities learned of a possible attack late on Thursday and stepped up security, Mr Malik said.

“We took all the required measure without creating a panic,” he added.

Police official Bin Yamin told AP news agency the suspects were connected to the Pakistani Taliban in South Waziristan.

In December last year the Pakistani army declared victory following a major two-month offensive against the Taliban in the tribal region, which borders Afghanistan.

But attacks by militants in the region have continued, while drone air strikes on their suspected hideouts take place on an almost daily basis.

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