Pakistan asks Taliban to aid security

Pakistani tribal elders in South Waziristan have asked local Taliban to open an office in the area to improve security, the BBC reported.

Well-known religious scholar Mawlawi Abbas said the function of the Taliban office would not be to implement Islamic Law, but to improve security, the BBC's Urdu language service reported Tuesday.

Abbas was on the Pakistan government's wanted list a year ago, but was removed after promising not to take part in, or encourage others to take part in, attacks on security forces.

This some four years after the US went to war against the Taliban.

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