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Pakistan Taliban: 'Amnesty' for bounty minister
by ASIF SHAHZAD | Associated Press
Yahoo News
September 26, 2012
https://www.legal-project.org/3228/pakistan-taliban-amnesty-for-bounty-minister
Excerpt:
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban announced Wednesday that they were giving a Cabinet minister an "amnesty," taking him off their hit list, because he offered a $100,000 bounty for the killing of an anti-Islam filmmaker.
Separately, a breakaway faction of the Afghan Taliban announced its own bounty for those behind "Innocence of Muslims," the film that has sparked deadly protests across the Islamic world. The group is offering almost $500,000 in gold.
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