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India-Pakistan
With militants in disarray, is it time for action?
2014-06-12
[DAWN] Months of behind-the-curtain efforts to drive a wedge between Khan Said and the 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 less 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...
-led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain are bearing fruit. Khan Said overcame his reluctance and bade adieu to a myrmidon network that has wreaked havoc across the country. But what next?

Khan Said alias Sajna's exit from the TTP had been in the works even before the start of now-doomed peace talks, but contrary to expectations what happened afterwards has made the myrmidon scene in Pakistain more perplexed and complicated.
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