Government offers Reward for Baitullah Mehsud, Accomplices
June 28, 2009
ISLAMABAD: The government has offered a Rs50 million reward for information on Baitullah Mehsud, the chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, and 10 other top militant commanders.
Advertisements have appeared in newspapers here offering reward on information that leads to the arrest of Baitullah Mehsud and his accomplices.
The rewards are for militants, including three from South Waziristan, another three from Bajaur, two from Mohmand, two from Darra Adamkhel and one from Kurram Agency.
“A reward of Rs50 million has been announced for the arrest of Baitullah Mehsud, live or dead,” the channel reported here Sunday.
According to the advertisements, Bajaur’s Molvi Faqir’s head money has been fixed at Rs15 million while the head money of Rs10 million each has been fixed on the arrests of Abdul Wali of Mohmand Agency, Qari Shakeel of Mohmand Agency, Commander Tariq of Darra Adamkhel, Hakimullah Mehsud and Qari Hussain of South Waziristan.
Information leading to the arrest of Qari Ziaur Rahman of Bajaur, Fazal Saeed Utezai of Kurram Agency, Mufti Ilyas of Darra Adamkhel and Waliur Rahman of Bajaur would be rewarded Rs5 million each.
In March this year, the US offered a $5 million reward for information on Baitullah Mehsud.
