Taliban Have Spread Out All Over Pakistan: Malik, The Express Tribune, 25 June 2010

EXCERPT: "Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the government plans 'action' against more than two dozen banned jihadi outfits operating in parts of Punjab and Sindh. Speaking to the National Assembly here on Thursday, the minister added that fighters from most feared homegrown Taliban groups have now 'spread? in the country's most populous areas after they were chased out of their hideouts in lawless tribal regions by a concerted military campaign. 'The TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan) is all over Pakistan now,' Malik said and vowed  that law enforcing agencies working under him would 'get them wherever they are'. The comments from the Pakistan's top civilian troubleshooter come a day after a military spokesperson said there are fears that Taliban are growing in influence in some parts of the country's agricultural heartlands."

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