Pakistani Taliban withdrawing from Buner

A Pakistani Taliban commander has ordered his fighters to withdraw from Buner district, a spokesman for the militants said on Friday, amid mounting alarm in the United States and Islamabad over their creeping advance towards the Pakistani capital. "Our...

A Pakistani Taliban commander has ordered his fighters to withdraw from Buner district, a spokesman for the militants said on Friday, amid mounting alarm in the United States and Islamabad over their creeping advance towards the Pakistani capital. "Our leader has ordered that Taliban should immediately be called back from Buner," spokesman Muslim Khan told Reuters.

Khan belongs to faction led by Taliban commander Fazlullah, whose stronghold is in the neighbouring Swat valley where the government has caved in to demands for the imposition of Islamic law.

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