Taliban Show 17 Pakistani Heads from Cross-border Raid in Gruesome Video

The Taliban released a video on Wednesday that pictured 17 human heads spread out on white sheet in front of masked fighters holding confiscated weapons. The group said the heads were detached from Pakistani soldiers captured when Taliban executed a cross-border raid into Pakistan from Afghanistan this week. The gruesome video was provided to the Associated Press by a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban. The apparent purpose of the horrific exercise was to demonstrate the failure of Western-backed efforts to eradicate the terrorists from the region. The video’s narrative warns that the killing will continue until the Pakistani government breaks from the United States and sharia (Islamic religious) law is imposed in Pakistan. Also on Wednesday, a bomb exploded inside a railway station in southwest Pakistan killing five and wounding twenty.