Jamming cell phones will not stop us from our mission: Taliban spokesman
Posted by Ngo jobs
on Saturday 24 November 2012
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KHYBER AGENCY: A
spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has claimed that suspending mobile phone
services in the country will not hold back the militant group from carrying out
its activities.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman
Ehsanullah Ehsan, speaking on the telephone to a Dawn.com correspondent from an
undisclosed location, claimed the banned group does not carry out bombings
using cellular phones as detonators.
“We do not carry out bombings through mobile
phones,” said the Taliban spokesman.
The militant group’s claim came on a day of
cellular service suspension in several parts of the country, with the interior
minister announcing services would be blocked again Saturday morning for the
next two days after a few hours of restoration Friday midnight.
Pakistani authorities say militants often detonate
bombs using cell phones, with Interior Minister Rehman Malik claiming earlier
today that 90 per cent of the bombs set off by militants in Pakistan have been
detonated using mobile phones.
“The Taliban can not be stopped by jamming
mobile phone services. We would achieve our targets in any case,” said Ehsan,
accusing Malik of blocking cellular services for “his own personal business
interests
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Labels: Dawn news