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The Taliban has killed 15 members of a tribal police force in north-west Pakistan, as what the militants said was revenge for a recent army operation in which female relatives were detained.
The Taliban has killed 15 members of Pakistan's security forces, in what the militants claimed was revenge for army operations against them.
Their bodies were found, naked, in the tribal region of North Waziristan this morning, according to the Associated Press. They had been tortured and shot, local officials toldReuters.
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The men killed belonged to the Constabulary Corps, a paramilitary force that defends the north-west region of Pakistan, near the Afghan border. They had been abducted during a raid on a security base on Dec. 22.
Speaking to the BBC, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban said the hostages had been executed in revenge for a recent army offensive against their group. Not only had soldiers killed 12 Taliban fighters in a Dec. 31 operation in the Khyber tribal district, Ehsanullah Ehsan claimed, they had then taken the "very dangerous" step of detaining the fighters' female relatives.
"We warned them to release them as soon as possible otherwise consequences will be very harsh but unfortunately they turned a deaf ear to our warning," he wrote in an email to the BBC.
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