Sunday, December 30, 2012

Hell On Earth In Pakistan - 21 Pakistani Security Services Personnel Kidnapped by Taliban Are Executed

The Pakistani Taliban are on an absolute rampage in the country of Pakistan with their first major massacre of the weekend being the slaughter-like execution of 21 tribal police who they had taken hostage after over running two security bases outside of Peshawar.  There was no ransom sought, there were no videos of demands - it was simply a barbaric execution of 21 human beings. There apparently was some sort of effort to talk the Taliban out of the executions but no one on this planet held out any hope of that...rightfully so.

The story comes from DAWN.



Twenty-one kidnapped Levies killed by Pakistani Taliban


PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban executed twenty one of the 23 Levies personnel kidnapped earlier this week, police sources told DawnNews in wee hours of Sunday.

The political administration of Frontier Region (FR) Peshawar have confirmed that 21 Levies officials were shot dead by the militant group in a cricket ground near Peshawar’s Jan-e-Khawarr area.

Meanwhile, one kidnapped official who survived the ordeal has been transferred to Lady Reading Hospital in critical condition while another reached home safely after managing to escape from captivity.

On Thursday, 23 personnel were kidnapped after an attack on two levies posts by militants in the Frontier Region Peshawar, police said. The attackers were wearing security forces’ uniforms and were armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, sources added. Two policemen were also killed in the attacks.

Later, a Taliban spokesman for Dara Adamkhel, Mohammad Afridi, had told Dawn newspaper by phone that his group had carried out the attack.

Afridi had claimed that eight personnel had been killed and 23 had been kidnapped.

The government was seeking local tribal elders’ help to rescue the kidnapped officials and a local Jirga was conducting dialogues with the militant group. However, the talks did not succeed.

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