PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Taliban on Thursday called for the death of the jailed Pakistani doctor who helped the US find Osama bin Laden, vowing to “cut him into pieces when and where we manage to reach him.”

Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP that Dr. Shakil Afridi was at the top of the terrorist organization’s kill list, vowing, “We will cut him into pieces when and where we manage to reach him.”

“This court judgment and punishment is all a drama, staged to hand him over to America,” Ehsan added.

Earlier Thursday, a Pakistani militant group accused of having links to Afridi denied associating with him and said they would “chew him alive” if they found him.

A commander from the Lashkar e Islam militant group said on condition of anonymity that, “We have no link to such a shameless man. If we see him we’ll chew him alive.”