leader of the Taliban militants in Pakistan's northwestern Swat district, Maulana Fazlullah, said Tuesday that he had survived the military offensive and was now in Afghanistan.Fazlullah told the BBC Urdu Service via cell phone from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan that his loyalists would soon "launch guerrilla raids against the army in Swat".Pakistani officials had previously claimed that Fazlullah...
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leader of the Taliban militants in Pakistan's northwestern Swat district, Maulana Fazlullah, said Tuesday that he had survived the military offensive and was now in Afghanistan.Fazlullah told the BBC Urdu Service via cell phone from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan that his loyalists would soon "launch guerrilla raids against the army in Swat".Pakistani officials had previously claimed that Fazlullah...
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aide of radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah has been arrested in the Swat region as the Pakistani Army continued with its offensive against the Taliban fighters.Ali Shah Khan, an aide of Maulana Fazlullah, was arrested during search operations in Charbagh area, Geo TV reported Monday.The former tourist destination of Swat has been reeling under Taliban violence since early 2007 when militants loyal to...
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Taliban leader and radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah has been wounded and has been surrounded by security forces, a minister has said.North West Frontier Province Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour said the head of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) in Swat, Fazlullah, was injured and has been surrounded, Online news agency reported Thursday.Bilour told a TV channel that top leadership of TTP Swat has either...
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Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has challenged media reports that claim that SwatTaliban commander Mullah Fazlullah is alive and has sneaked into Afghanistan.Addressing a function at the police lines here, Malik said: “In case the Afghan Government knows where Fazlullah is hiding, they should apprehend and hand him over to Pakistan.”The BBC’s Urdu service had reported that Fazlullah had called...
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Taliban leader and radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah has been wounded and has been surrounded by security forces, a minister has said.North West Frontier Province Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour said the head of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) in Swat, Fazlullah, was injured and has been surrounded, Online news agency reported Thursday.Bilour told a TV channel that top leadership of TTP Swat has either...
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Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has challenged media reports that claim that SwatTaliban commander Mullah Fazlullah is alive and has sneaked into Afghanistan.Addressing a function at the police lines here, Malik said: “In case the Afghan Government knows where Fazlullah is hiding, they should apprehend and hand him over to Pakistan.”The BBC’s Urdu service had reported that Fazlullah had called...
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aide of radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah has been arrested in the Swat region as the Pakistani Army continued with its offensive against the Taliban fighters.Ali Shah Khan, an aide of Maulana Fazlullah, was arrested during search operations in Charbagh area, Geo TV reported Monday.The former tourist destination of Swat has been reeling under Taliban violence since early 2007 when militants loyal to...
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Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of Taliban in Pakistan's Swat valley, has claimed that he fled to Afghanistan after evading troops conducting operations against militants and threatened to launch "hit and run attacks" soon against security forces in the restive northwest region.Fazlullah founded the Taliban in Swat, which sought to enforce a hard-line version of Sharia law in the region. Maulana Fazlullah...
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Interior Minister Rehman Malik has challenged media reports that claim that SwatTaliban commander Mullah Fazlullah is alive and has sneaked into Afghanistan.Addressing a function at the police lines here, Malik said: "In case the Afghan Government knows where Fazlullah is hiding, they should apprehend and hand him over to Pakistan."The BBC's Urdu service had reported that Fazlullah had called them...
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