Baitullah spurns Omar's advice
By: Shamim Shahid | Published: June 20, 2009PESHAWAR - Baitullah Mehsud, chief of Taliban militants, has turned a deaf ear to the request of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar Akhund of halting terrorist acts in Pakistan and focusing all of his activities against the United States-led allies inside Afghanistan. “Mullah Omar is our Ameer but like Afghanistan, they are determined to continue resistance in Pakistan,” Baitullah Mehsud told the
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