Taliban and Weapons of Mass Disruption Threat

In Late 2009, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the radical umbrella terror group operating Pakistan, had threatened to unleash a chemical warfare against Pakistan and planned to use the age old tactics of mass disruption by poisoning Multan, Karachi and Rawalpindi water supplies. According to Pakistan’s intelligence agencies, the Taliban presently cornered in their own tribal strongholds, planning to use ‘cyanide’ and other poisonous chemical substances to the water supply lines in these cities. A faxed threat- letter was received by the Rawalpindi Directorate of Military Lands and Cantonment sometimes in November and as per the letter and other Intel inputs, Taliban has already procured and stockpiled 200 liters of poisonous material that would be used to contaminate water sources and reservoirs under Rawalpindi and Chakla cantonments and perhaps in Karachi. Early in November 2009, Multan administration has directed the concern authorities to stop supplying water to the people from storage tanks after receiving inputs about the Taliban’s threat.

In April 2009 Pakistan’s North West Front Province (NWFP) police chief Malik Navid told a Pakistan National Assembly’s standing committee about Taliban’s expertise in making chemical and biological weapons. Navid warned that the Pakistan government needed to urgently focus on containing militancy as it spread from its bases. Navid’s testimony also highlighted the merger of al-Qaida and Taliban in AfPak region.

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