Pakistani Taliban appoint Mullah Fazlullah as new chief.

[Spring Onion]

I see another drone missile with his name on it !!! very soon "" inshaallah """

Unlikely . He is sheltered by Afghanistan and drone attack on him seems unlikely.

He will lead TTP terrorists against Pakistan with support of Afghan govt while sitting in Afghanistan.

However, with his appointment as TTP head the drone attack on Hakimullah is understandable that it was all done to engage Pakistanis within. With appointment of Fazal as TTP head its surely and END to talks with TTP. in my personal opinion we should NOT can NOT talk to him.

Eliminate him

 

[Malang Badshah]

No hypocrisy, TTP and its operatives are declared khawarjis by all scholars.
Only foreign agent Imran Khan, is supporting them, who amounts for nothing.
We will remain at war with these khawarjis. 


Yeh that's the spirit... but we need to check its political and judicial support, first.

Would you care to mention any names of those 'all scholars'. Which deobandi scholars have declared Taliban as khawarij? Can you show any copy of any fatwa? or was it that by 'scholars' you meant the Molvis employed by GoP and Army who lead prayers in Parliament House, Senate, PM House and GHQ mosques?

 

[TalibanSwatter]

Fazllulah's base in Nuristan - a salafi bastion

Saleem Shahzad

Oct 2009

ISLAMABAD - The United States has withdrawn its troops from its four key bases in Nuristan, on the border with Pakistan, leaving the northeastern province as a safe haven for the Taliban-led insurgency to orchestrate its regional battles.
The US has retained some forces in Nuristan's capital, Parun, to provide security for the governor and government facilities. The American position concerning the withdrawal is that due to winter conditions, supply arteries are choked, making it difficult to keep forces in remote areas. The US has pulled out from some areas in the past, but never from all four main bases.
The move by the top US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChystal, follows the death on October 3 of eight US soldiers as well as a number of Afghan National Army forces when their outpost in Kamdesh was attacked by more than 300 militants. On July 13, 2008, nine American soldiers were killed when their outpost in Wanat was attacked by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.
Nuristan is strategically located in the Hindu Kush mountains, the vast and rugged region in which al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his associates are believed to hide.
The province is now under the effective control of the network belonging to Qari Ziaur Rahman, a Taliban commander with strong ties to Bin Laden. This makes Nuristan the first Afghan province to be controlled by a network inspired by al-Qaeda.
In a telephone conversation on Wednesday, a militant linked to Rahman said that now that they had control of Nuristan, the militants are "marching towards Mohmand and Bajaur to help their fellow Taliban fighting against Pakistani troops", referring to two tribal agencies across the border.
Rahman is not the son of a legendary mujahideen commander, but of a cleric named Maulana Dilbar. His ties do not lie with Pakistan, but with Bin Laden, having instructed him in the lessons of the Prophet Mohammed's life.
Ziaur, in his early thirties, was raised in the camps of Arab militants, who instilled in him the passion to fight against the Americans - not only in Afghanistan, but across the globe. Ziaur did not get his command as any hereditary right. First he had to prove himself on the battlefield, which he did by taking on US troops in Kunar and Nuristan provinces. He was the first to mount operations against the US in the Karghal district of Kunar and he engineered encounters in Nuristan. (See A fighter and a financier Asia Times Online, May 23, 2008.)
Mountainous Nuristan - and adjoining Kunar province and the Mohmand and Bajaur tribal areas - provide a natural labyrinth, ideal for insurgents to establish safe heavens. The majority of Nuristan's people adhere to the strict Salafi school of thought. As a result, Arab fighters, who are mostly Salafis, have always been drawn to the area. This happened during the jihad against the Soviets in the 1980s, when a virtually autonomous Salafi "kingdom" was established with aid from Saudi Arabia. This was later taken over by the Taliban.
In recent years, several top al-Qaeda leaders have been spotted in the area, including al-Qaeda deputy Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri, who escaped two missile attacks by US Predator drones. During the Soviet invasion, Nuristan was one of the few areas of the country that was never under occupation. Since the US-led invasion of 2001, it, along with Kunar, has been a hot-bed of activity.
The Taliban's control of Nuristan coincides with the big Pakistani military operation in the South Waziristan tribal area against the al-Qaeda-backed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, which has been underway for the past two weeks. As the militant who spoke to Asia Times Online said, there is now the opportunity to open a new front, with Rahman's forces on the Afghan side and those of Moulvi Faqir Mohammad on the Bajaur and Mohmand side.
This region is also home to displaced militants from Pakistan's Swat Valley led by Mullah Fazlullah, who withdrew earlier this year after a military offensive in that area. They are believed to have regrouped and are preparing for new action in Swat once the winter snows block passes, making it difficult for the army's supply lines.

 

[fatman17]

Saturday, November 09, 2013

New Taliban chief could push Pakistan to military action


ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Taliban’s appointment of a new hardline leader opposed to peace talks and with a long history of attacks against the military could push the army into launching a fresh offensive, analysts said Friday.

The election of Maulana Fazlullah, notorious for leading the militants’ brutal two-year rule in Swat valley, is like a “red rag to a bull”, one analyst said. It could also raise tensions with Kabul at a critical juncture as US-led forces withdraw from Afghanistan after 12 years of war. While Kabul has long accused Islamabad of supporting the Afghan Taliban, Fazlullah has orchestrated cross-border attacks from his hideout in eastern Afghanistan, and Pakistan suspects its neighbour’s intelligence services of supporting him.

Fazlullah, nicknamed Mullah Radio for his fiery sermons over the airwaves denouncing polio vaccination campaigns and female education, is renowned as an uncompromising commander. Pakistani intelligence believes he is linked to the failed attempt to kill schoolgirl education activist Malala Yousafzai. He was appointed chief of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Thursday, nearly a week after a US drone strike killed his predecessor Hakimullah Mehsud.

Islamabad reacted angrily to the killing of Mehsud, with the interior minister saying Washington had “sabotaged” peace talks. It is not clear what progress, if any, had been made towards meaningful dialogue – but the process lies in tatters after Fazlullah’s election. On Thursday, the militants dismissed the idea of peace talks with the government as a “waste of time”, and said they would never negotiate until sharia law was imposed across the country.

Defence analyst Talat Masood, a retired general, said the TTP’s choice of Fazlullah, whose men have carried out bloody and humiliating attacks against the army, was like a “red rag to a bull”. “This leaves no margin for negotiation and they will have to resort to a military operation and will have to be fully prepared to prevent terrorist actions in the country,” Masood told AFP. “He is enemy number one of the military.” In September, political parties backed the government’s proposal for talks to try to end the TTP’s six-year insurgency, which has killed thousands.

Fazlullah’s men responded by killing two senior army officers, including a major general, in a roadside bomb – a galling blow to the pride of the military. Fazlullah rubbed salt in the wounds by issuing a video message to claim the attack and to reveal the intended target was General Ashfaq Kayani, the army’s supreme commander. Saifullah Khan Mehsud, an expert on tribal affairs from the FATA Research Center, said that although talks look unlikely to succeed, the government should try to pursue them as a way to create rifts in the TTP. “We know that a lot of Taliban are in fact in favour of talks with the Pakistani establishment. If we can isolate hardline elements within the TTP through talks I would consider that a success,” he said. afp

 

[batmannow]

he is going to be grilled !soon!

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

I am actually happy that he is the new leader of TTP.

With the way he operates, it is inevitable that he will force a conflict head on with the Pakistani State. It was his stupidity that forced him into a conflict with Pakistan Army in 2008, i am sure the exact same will happen again. Off course there is going to be lots of violence and many bomb blasts across the country, but this will give a final jolt to the Pakistani people which is required.

theyve already threatened attacks on the Punjab and other parts throughout Pakistan; and still you have delusionals who talk about "peace talks"

mind boggling and chilling at the same time that we have people of such mentality in Pakistan