Malik announces Rs 10m reward for Taliban info

Government on Saturday announced a cash reward of Rs 10 million to anyone providing information about the Taliban. 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, Malik told reporters in Islamabad. Malik said that most Taliban belonged to the banned Sunni militant outfits of Laskhar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has been accused of killing hundreds of Shia Muslims after its emergence in the early 1990s. It was banned by then president Pervez Musharraf in 1999.

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