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Pakistani Taliban Claims Killing Kidnapped Former Spy

Pakistani Taliban Claims Killing Kidnapped Former Spy
# 20 February 2011 04:39 (UTC +04:00)
Baku – APA. The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for killing a former Pakistani intelligence officer who helped establish the Taliban in Afghanistan, APA reports quoting “The Voice of America”.
In January, a government official said Sultan Amir Tarar — known by his alias “Colonel Imam” — died of a heart attack while in militant custody in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area.
However, militant spokesman Hakimullah Ahsan said Saturday that he was shot and killed by Taliban fighters, adding that militants had released a video of the killing. There was no immediate independent confirmation of the claim.
Tarar was seized by militants last March along with a fellow Pakistani intelligence officer and a British TV journalist of Pakistani origin.
Tarar, a retired senior official of Pakistan’s Interservices Intelligence Agency , once helped U.S. efforts to push the Soviets out of Afghanistan in the 1980s. He later developed close ties to senior Taliban leaders such as Mullah Omar when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. In recent years, he advocated negotiations with the Taliban, but denied having operational ties with the insurgents.
The journalist seized with him last March was later freed, but the intelligence officer was killed by his captors.
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