ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Villagers in northwest Pakistan have attacked Taliban
militants killing seven of them in revenge for a bomb attack on a
mosque that killed at least 40 people, a top government official and
residents said on Sunday.
It was the latest in a series of instances of people turning their guns on the Taliban
in recent weeks and trying to force them out of their areas and will
encourage the Pakistani government which needs public support to defeat
the militants.
"We
are Muslims, we pray regularly and read the Koran. We don't want them,
they have to go," resident Samiullah Khan said by telephone. "Attacking
a mosque is not Islam. They're not Muslim."
Ethnic Pashtun tribal elder Mohtabar Khan said letting the Taliban stay was asking for trouble.
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