BangersAndMash
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23 March 2012
In Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, police say the Taliban are generating funds through bank robberies, protection rackets and kidnappings.
Abductions are particularly lucrative, with ransom demands sometimes running to millions of dollars. The BBC's Orla Guerin reports on how the militants are making inroads in Pakistan's financial capital.
"They are destabilising our country, killing innocent people, and giving a bad name to our religion"
Mohammad Aslam Khan
Senior superintendent of police
FULL ARTICLE: BBC News - Taliban's brisk trade of kidnapping in Karachi
In Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, police say the Taliban are generating funds through bank robberies, protection rackets and kidnappings.
Abductions are particularly lucrative, with ransom demands sometimes running to millions of dollars. The BBC's Orla Guerin reports on how the militants are making inroads in Pakistan's financial capital.
"They are destabilising our country, killing innocent people, and giving a bad name to our religion"
Mohammad Aslam Khan
Senior superintendent of police
FULL ARTICLE: BBC News - Taliban's brisk trade of kidnapping in Karachi