Taliban say poll observers not welcome

PESHAWAR: The insurgent Taliban have warned foreign media and observers, who are due in the country to monitor January 8 vote, to keep away from Pakistan.
"As America and its coalition partners will send their men to sanctify the January 8 election in Pakistan, Taliban will act against them because all that is happening in the country is un-Islamic being done on the direction of atheists," says a letter in Urdu from Tehreek-e-Islami Taliban, an unknown faction of Taliban, received by the Mashriq Group of Newspapers on Wednesday.
"Everybody knows the present government has been promoting vulgarity in the country on the direction of foreign countries. And now the current regime (led by Musharraf) is trying to re-elect its men to continue the game it has been playing for the last six, seven years. But now we (Tehreek-e-Islami Taliban) have decided to stop the drama being played under the patronage of Jews," it adds.
Taliban warned the foreign media and observers to avoid their programmed visit to Pakistan