Peshawar: Pakistani Taliban on Thursday demanded India to return the body of the lone survivor of the militant squad responsible for a rampage through Mumbai that killed 166 people in 2008, Ajmal Kasab and threatened to attack Indian targets after Qasab’s execution.
Kasab was hanged on Wednesday amid great secrecy, underscoring the political sensitivity of the November 26, 2008, massacre, which still casts a pall over relations between nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India.
Talking to BBC via telephone from undisclosed location, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said, “”If they don’t return his body to us or his family we will capture Indians and will not return their bodies.”
He further said that Taliban would attack Indian targets to avenge the execution of Kasab.
“We have decided to target Indians to avenge the killing of Ajmal Kasab,” the TTP spokesman said.
Diplomatic sources in Islamabad said that security measures at the Indian High Commission, which are already very extensive, had been further tightened after the Taliban threat.
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