Islamabad: A banned Pakistani militant outfit has warned officials working as enumerators in the troubled Khyber tribal region that they will be "sentenced to death" unless they immediately halt their activities.
"We will continue opposing government policies unless the government or its advisers begin talks with us," Lashkar-e-Islam chief Mangal Bagh Afridi said in a speech broadcast on his private FM radio channel in Tirah valley.
Pakistani government officials have been working in the Khyber tribal region to register voters and conduct a census.
The militant group warned that they will be "sentenced to death" unless they immediately halt their activities.
Afridi said elected representatives and tribal elders were ignoring the issue of law and order in Khyber Agency and taking more interest in voter registration and census operations, The Express Tribune newspaper reported on Monday.
"Hundreds of people have died in Khyber Agency but no government agency or public representative has bothered to list their names or establish a team for the purpose," he claimed.
Criticising the government's Benazir Income Support Programme, Afridi said his group would not let the scheme succeed in the area. He threatened all persons who sought to participate in the programme with dire consequences.
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