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Peshawar, Sep.15 (ANI): North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain has said that Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah would be nabbed dead or alive soon as the security forces have tightened the noose around him.

Hussain claimed that troops have surrounded the region where Fazlullah is believed to be hiding.

“Fazlullah has not yet surrendered [...]

Islamabad, Sep.14 (ANI): Security forces killed 16 more militants, at least two of them senior Taliban members, while one soldier was killed in clashes during searches in Swat on Monday, the military said in a daily update.

Over 1,700 militants have been killed since Pakistani security forces launched the military operation against Taliban militants in [...]

Lahore, Sep.13 (ANI): The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Swat chapter chief Mullah Fazlullah has reportedly been seriously wounded and may surrender soon, a private television channel said.

Sources said security forces have received information that Fazlullah is hiding in a cave somewhere in the Swat and Malakand Division and is hurt.

Troops have cordoned off the place of [...]

Peshawar, Sep.11 (ANI) The Pakistan Government on Friday announced that it had arrested the chief spokesman of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Muslim Khan.

Khan was formerly a commander and spokesman of the Swat Taliban.

“Muslim Khan and Mahmood Khan with head money of 10 [...]

Lahore, Sep.3 (ANI): Pakistan security agencies have arrested three more sons of the Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Mohammad.

According to The Daily Times, the three men were detained along with their families from Peshawar’s Pervaiz Colony.

Security forces nabbed Abdullah, Fazlullah and Abdul Rehman in a raid and took them to an unidentified location, sources said.

Sufi [...]

Islamabad, July 28 (ANI): Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah aka Radio Mullah is injured and is hiding in the terrains of Peochar along with his close aides, Interior Advisor Rehman Malik has said.

Malik claimed the security forces have surrounded Fazlullah and his accomplices, and that they would be arrested soon.

Over the past few days media [...]

Islamabad, July 14 (ANI): Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that several top commanders of the Taliban have been killed and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Fazlullah was among those injured during the military operation in Swat and Malakand Division.

“Our security forces have successfully contained the situation and targeted the extremist commanders. Most of the [...]

Islamabad, July 9 (ANI): The Pakistan Army has claimed that Mullah Fazlullah, the chief of the Taliban’s Swat chapter, has been grievously wounded in an attack by security forces.

Addressing a joint press conference with Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General (DG) Major General Athar Abbas said the Army [...]

Islamabad, July 8 (ANI): The operation in Swat and Buner has been completed and these areas have been cleared of militants, the Pakistan Army claimed today.

Addressing a press conference accompanied with Federal Information minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, [...]

Rawalpindi, July 2 (ANI): At least six persons were killed and over 15 injured in a suicide bomb attack here on Thursday.

The attack which took place in the Chur Chowk area of the city was earlier referred to as a bomb blast, but later senior police officials confirmed that [...]

Islamabad, June 28 (ANI): The Pakistan Government has claimed that the family members of senior Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah have been arrested.

Talking to media persons here, the Pakistan Prime Minister’s Advisor on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik said that the security officials have arrested the family members of Fazlullah.

Malik refused to divulge details about the [...]

Peshawar, June26 (ANI): The North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain has said that reports about the death of Taliban Swat chapter deputy leader, Shah Durran, had not been confirmed yet.

“We’ve heard reports of Shah Durran’s death, and his consequent funeral and burial, but we cannot officially confirm it unless we have concrete [...]

Lahore, May 28 (ANI): Pakistan has claimed that Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a military operation being carried out in the SwatValley.

Announcing a whopping four million rupees bounty on Fazlullah, the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain said the Army has confirmed the deaths of several top [...]

Mingora, Apr 28 (ANI): Tension in the Swat Valley is fast growing as the Taliban continues armed patrolling and threatened a group of lawyers and recalcitrant militants. It also captured a telephone exchange in Sataal and looted two NGO offices in Saidu Sharif while preparing for a showdown with security forces.

Meanwhile, US spy planes flew [...]

Islamabad, Apr.26 (ANI): The Taliban’s Swat chapter commander, Mullah Fazlullah, has said that the Taliban would accept only ‘Islam’s writ’ in the Valley.

Making an announcement over his illegal FM radio station, Fazlullah said that the Taliban would not hesitate in more sacrifices if sharia is not implemented by the government in the Malakand division, [...]

Peshawar, Apr.24 (ANI): The Taliban has decided to withdraw from the Buner district of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) following orders from its chief Mullah Fazlullah, the Dawn reported the Commissioner of Malakand Division, as saying.

“Our leader has ordered that Taliban should immediately [...]

Hardline cleric Sufi Muhammad, who played a key role in enforcing Islamic law in Pakistan’s restive northwestern SWAT valley, said on Sunday that there is no room for democracy in Islam and it contravenes the Quran.
Addressing a gathering of thousands of people at Mingora, the main city in Swat district, the chief of the banned [...]

Islamabad – Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has approved a regulation to enforce Islamic sharia law in the troubled Swat region, in the hopes of achieving peace with Taliban militants, state media said Tuesday. Zardari signed the controversial document late Monday after the country’s lower house of the parliament unanimously adopted a resolution urging him [...]

Islamabad, April 10 (IANS) The ratification of a peace deal signed with the Taliban in the Swat Valley is directly linked to restoring peace in the area, a Pakistani minister said Friday, a day after a radical cleric who had brokered the deal upped the ante on its implementation.
Talking to reporters outside parliament, Interior Minister [...]

Islamabad, April 9 (IANS) After consolidating their position in a vast swathe of the country’s restive northwest, Taliban militants now seem to be eying this Pakistani capital, even as they threatened to walk out of a peace deal in the Swat valley if the federal government doesn’t play ball.
A large group of Taliban fighters has [...]