Pro-Taliban Pakistanis seize northern town

Hundreds of armed pro-Taliban Pakistanis seized a remote northern town today and demanded that the military-led Government should stop supporting the US-led strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan, witnesses said.

The rebels, armed with rocket launchers, Kalashnikov assault rifles, hand-made guns and swords, took over most government offices in Chilas, about 210 miles northeast of Peshawar.