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| Pakistan government bans Taleban | Pakistan government bans Taleban |
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| Pakistan has banned the Taleban militant group which has been behind many suicide attacks in the country since 2007. | Pakistan has banned the Taleban militant group which has been behind many suicide attacks in the country since 2007. |
| The Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP) will have its bank accounts and assets frozen, the interior ministry said. | The Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP) will have its bank accounts and assets frozen, the interior ministry said. |
| Last week the Taleban claimed responsibility for an attack on a munitions plant in Punjab province in which 67 people were killed. | |
| It is not yet clear what impact the ban will have on the militants. | It is not yet clear what impact the ban will have on the militants. |
| The TTP is a loose grouping of militants headed by Baitullah Mehsud who is based in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district on Afghanistan's border. | The TTP is a loose grouping of militants headed by Baitullah Mehsud who is based in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district on Afghanistan's border. |
| The ban on the Taleban comes a day after the man likely to be Pakistan's next president, Asif Ali Zardari, advocated such a move in a BBC interview. | |
| 'Created mayhem' | |
| "We have banned Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan because of their involvement in a series of suicide attacks," interior ministry chief Rehman Malik said. | "We have banned Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan because of their involvement in a series of suicide attacks," interior ministry chief Rehman Malik said. |
| "They themselves have claimed responsibility of several suicide attacks and the government cannot engage in a dialogue with such people," he said. | "They themselves have claimed responsibility of several suicide attacks and the government cannot engage in a dialogue with such people," he said. |
| Mr Malik said the Taleban had "created mayhem against the public life". | Mr Malik said the Taleban had "created mayhem against the public life". |
| A ministry official told the BBC that the state bank had been asked to freeze any accounts the organisation might have. | |
| The Pakistan Taleban is fighting for an Islamic state. They see it as their religious duty to fight the international forces currently in Afghanistan, the BBC's Charles Haviland in Islamabad says. | |
| Meeting journalists in May, Baitullah Mehsud said his organisation did not want to fight Pakistan's army, but that it was being forced to because the army were "slaves to US demands". | |
| There have been a number of local ceasefire deals with the Taleban and other militants but none have been successful in stopping the violence or preventing incursions into Afghanistan, our correspondent says. |