Maulana fazlullah biography
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Who is Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah?
Mullah Fazlullah – nicknamed "Mullah Radio" for his radical sermons on a Pakistan-based local radio station – was the leader of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). He hailed from Swat district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkwa province.
In , Fazlullah established a parallel government in Swat and enforced Shariah (Islamic law). A subsequent military operation in forced him to flee to Afghanistan's northeastern Kunar province.
"In , Pakistani officials claimed that Fazlullah was wounded in a raid, but later it was revealed that he had moved to Afghanistan. It is believed that he had stayed in Afghanistan until his reported death," Shamim Shahid, a Peshawar-based journalist, told DW.
In March, US State Department announced a 5-million-dollar bounty on Fazlullah's head.
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Is Fazlullah really dead?
Afghanistan's Defense Ministry confirmed Fazlullah's death on Friday, saying the militant leader was killed in a joint operation of Afghan and NATO forces in the country's east.
"I confirm that Mullah Fazlullah, leader of the Pakistani Taliban, has been killed in a joint air operation in the border area of Marawera district
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Profile of a Terrorist: Mullah Fazlullah was among the most ruthless ones
LAHORE: Mullah Fazlullah, who was killed in a recent US drone strike in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, was among the most ruthless Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leaders.
Born in , Fazal Hayat (his real name) was not inclined to pursue his family business of farming. Instead, he found a new vocation after he joined a religious seminary in Malakand which was owned and operated by a hardline cleric, Sufi Mohammed.
Mohammed was the leader of his own religious faction, Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM), and it inspired a number of young men in his immediate neighborhood.
In , when US forces invaded Afghanistan in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, the TNSM leader cobbled together a ragtag militia of young volunteers in and around the Malakand region to fight alongside the Afghan Taliban against the American military.
According to some accounts, this was also Fazlullah’s first battlefield experience and it apparently transformed him forever. Sufi Mohammed’s army suffered significant losses in Afghanistan and he was arrested and incarcerated by Pakistan’s security agencies while he was trying to return to his homeland.
In his absence, Fazlullah emerged as