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Kasab hanging: Pakistan Taliban vows to attack Indian targets

Reuters | Posted on Nov 22, 2012 at 12:15pm IST

Islamabad: Pakistan's Taliban movement threatened on Thursday to attack Indian targets to avenge the country's execution of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor of the militant squad responsible for a rampage through Mumbai that killed 166 people in 2008.

"We have decided to target Indians to avenge the killing of Ajmal Kasab," said Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan by telephone from an undisclosed location.

25-year old Kasab was hanged at 7.30 am in the Yerawada central prison in Pune on Wednesday.

Kasab hanging: Pakistan Taliban vows to attack Indian targets

Pakistan\'s Taliban movement threatened on Thursday to attack Indian targets to avenge the execution of Ajmal Kasab.

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