Posted on 09/27/2009 8:39:16 PM PDT by underthestreetlite
Pakistan on Sunday slapped bounties on the heads of five Taliban and militant leaders, part of an ongoing manhunt for the masterminds of deadly attacks rocking the northwest.
The five wanted men all hail from Khyber, a lawless tribal district on the Afghan border. One of the men is Mangal Bagh, head of militant Lashkar-e-Islam, who stands accused by officials of running torture centres and private jails in Khyber.
Bagh has a bounty of five million rupees on his head, while two other militant leaders have two-million-rupee rewards.
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