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'Mullah Radio' takes overTTP, terms talks 'waste of time'
[Pak Daily Times] The Pak Taliban appointed hardline holy man Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... as their new chief Thursday and dismissed proposed peace talks with the government as a "waste of time". Mullah Fazlullah, notorious for leading the bully boys' brutal two-year rule in Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... valley, was elected to replace Hakimullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone strike last Friday. The choice of Fazlullah by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) ruling council appears to have sunk government plans for peace talks to try to end the bully boys' bloody six-year insurgency. TTP front man Shahidullah Shahid said the new leader, nicknamed "Mullah Radio" for his fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speeches over the airwaves, was "against peace talks". "Holding of peace talks is not even an issue to discuss -- this government has no authority, it is not a sovereign government, it is a slave, a slave of America. Holding peace talks is a waste of time," Shahid told AFP. During Fazlullah's rule in his home area Swat, which began in 2007, the Taliban imposed a rigorous version of sharia, publicly beheading and flogging wrongdoers and burning schools. Fazlullah fled Swat when the army retook the valley in 2009 and is believed to have been in hiding in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Pakistain says he has directed attacks on its soil from across the border. His men were blamed for beheading 17 Pak soldiers in a checkpost attack in June 2012, and he appeared in a video posted online in September claiming a kaboom that killed a major general. In another video he vowed to do whatever it took to enforce sharia across Pakistain. "We will eliminate anything that will get in the way of achieving this goal: father or brother, soldier or police, khan or malik (tribal elders) or mullah," he said in the undated footage. The TTP's caretaker leader Asmatullah Shaheen announced the appointment at a presser in a secret location in North Wazoo. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-08 |
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