Call for Islamabad takeover

In a video, militant leaders Qadri Tahir Yaldeshiv and Abdul Khaliq Haqqani, who are linked to al-Qaeda, called for “urgent action” against Pakistani armed forces to “avenge” the storming of Islamabad’s Lal Masjid by the military last year.

The video was sent from Yaldeshiv’s camp in North Waziristan to the Italian news agency Adnkronos International (AKI).

“Jehad is compulsory in Pakistan as it is compulsory in Afghanistan,” he said in the video. “Pakistan came into being in the name of Islam. Therefore, Islam should be enforced in the country,” he said.