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Pakistan Bans Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan

The government of Pakistan has outlawed the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (the Movement of the Pakistani Taliban) and frozen their assets, according to a report in the Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Khabrain.

The report said that the Interior Ministry has issued an order to this effect. According to the report, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is also being included in the list of terrorist organizations.

Source: Roznama Khabrain, Pakistan, August 20, 2008

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