Pakistan army condemns naming Taliban chief martyr
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The Pakistan army on Sunday condemned a prominent Islamic political leader who called the Pakistani Taliban chief killed by a US drone strike a martyr.
Syed Munawar Hasan, the head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, told a Pakistani TV station earlier this month that he thought slain Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was a martyr. He later implied that Pakistani soldiers killed while fighting Islamic militants are not martyrs because they are allied with the US. (AP)
