The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, vowed on Saturday to carry on fighting Nato and US-led forces in Afghanistan regardless of negotiations for a peace deal with the Government of Pakistan. The Taliban leader told a group of journalists, invited to his stronghold in the tribal lands of South Waziristan, that he wanted to stop fighting the Pak Army.
"Fighting between the Taliban and Pakistan is harming Islam and Pakistan. This fighting should come to an end immediately," Mehsud said. "Islam does not recognise frontiers and boundaries. Jihad in Afghanistan will continue," Mehsud said, as guards carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles looked on.
Mehsud denied involvement in Bhutto's murder. The government led by PPP plans to seek a UN investigation, but Mehsud said he would not co-operate with any such probe. "The UN is a slave body. We will not work with it."