Pakistani Taliban criticize Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, saying president is ‘villain of peace’

Pakistani Taliban criticize Obama’s peace Nobel

ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani Taliban has criticized the decision to award Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize saying the U.S. president should have received a “villain of peace” award instead.

Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq said Wednesday the president who has beefed up the U.S. military presence in neighboring Afghanistan did not deserve the peace prize.

Tariq said Obama’s “hands are tainted with the blood of thousands of human beings.”