Govt initiates efforts to hunt down 'bad Taliban'

Islamabad-The PPP-led coalition government has launched efforts to track down and combat what is described as ‘Bad Taliban’ engaged in targeting the law-enforcement agencies in parts of the NWFP and FATA.
Well-placed sources told TheNation on Sunday that the government had taken serious exception to the latest spate of suicide bombings targeting the law-enforcement agencies particularly the NWFP police and decided to trace and combat the people involved in these attacks.
Sources further said that suicide bombing attacks first at a police check-post in Charsadda district and then in Hangu district claiming three dozen lives of duty cops including senior officers had forced the government to launch manhunt for these elements and bring them to the book.
Sources said these targeted bombing having identical pattern were acts of elements involved in the anti-state and anti-Islam activities with the support of local criminal gangs.
The government, sources said, gleaned clues into as result of the preliminary investigation by the security forces that these elements were either carrying out such actions on behalf of the enemy of Pakistan or serving the agenda of the local criminal gangs. The government was taken by surprise over the manner these elements had targeted the security forces in the backdrop of the Swat deal with Taliban who had demanded enforcement of speedy justice system in the form of Nizam-e-Adl.