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Taliban ultimatum for Pak MPs to resign

60 more militants killed in offensive

Ani, Indo Asian News Service, Islamabad
The Taliban has given members of parliament representing Pakistan's Malakand Division three days to resign, or else their families will be kidnapped.
"All national and provincial parliament members from the Malakand Division must resign within three days, otherwise, we will arrest all their families, and we will destroy all their buildings," Taliban spokesperson Muslim Khan told CNN.
In a separate directive, Muslim Khan urged Pakistan's Islamist political parties to publicly show support for Taliban militants.
"All these parties must help the Taliban. They must give a press conference to show the people that we need Sharia in the Malakand Division."The Nation quoted him. assaying.
Recently, the Jamaat-i-Islami has spoken out against the military's offensive in the Swat Valley.
The gray-bearded Khan, in an earlier phone
SEE PAGE 15 COL 7 FROM PAGE 1 interview with CNN, had revealed that he had spent four years in the United States working as a painter in Boston.
On Wednesday, Khan denied reports that Taliban militants had carried out a campaign of violence and intimidation in the region for the past two years.
"We are killing the people who are only no good for society, like thieves and people who are making problem for the poor people, like people who are working for army," he said.
Several refugees have described how insurgents kidnapped and killed their critics, beheaded government informers and blew up girls' schools.
Meanwhile 60 more Taliban fighters have been killed overnight in Pakistan's restive northwest, taking to 822 the number of militants killed in a security forces' operation against the insurgents, a media report Thursday said.
Geo TV said 60 extremists were killed when the security forces stormed the house of the nazim (administrator) of the Lower Dir district, which theTaliban had taken over.
The house was completely destroyed.
Several Taliban strongholds in Maidan and Kalpani sub-districts of Lower Dir were also destroyed as the military operation in three districts -the others being Swat and
Buner - of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) enteredits 19th day Thursday.
The security forces had achieved a major break-through Wednesday by capturing Peochar, the headquarters of Swat Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah.
Fazlullah is the son-in-law of Taliban-backed radical cleric Sufi Mohammad who had brokered a controversial peace accord with the NWFP government and whose violation by the militants had prompted the military action April 26.
Khan claimed that only 12 Taliban fighters had been killed in the on going military operation in the region, and government's claims of killing Taliban in large numbers were unsubstantiated.
"Mingora, the main town of Swat Valley, is still under Taliban control, and our fighters arc battling with security forces at every point," Khan had said.
Earlier, Pakistani Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani will Friday brief the leaders of all political parties in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, on the military action in NWFP.
According to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan, an All Parties Conference (APC) on the NWFP situation would be held here Monday.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will preside over the conference.