Swat rebel cleric Mullah Fazlullah announced a 'conditional amnesty' on Wednesday for public representatives and government officials from 'target-killing' if they gave up supporting the security forces carrying out an operation against him. The Taliban chief in Swat made the offer in an announcement through his illegal FM radio station from an undisclosed location after a two-day Shura (council) meeting. The radio station can be heard in the whole Swat valley.
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The Taliban had began killing pro-government leaders and social workers and destroyed their houses and offices after the military operation began. Fazlullah said that dialogue with the provincial government would not resume until the Taliban's reservations against the new shariah law were not addressed and other demands that he did not specify were fulfilled.
Meanwhile, the security forces arrested 18 suspects during a search operation in Guljaba area of Kabal tehsil. The security forces also demolished five houses of Taliban leaders in Guljaba.
Suspected Taliban bombed four houses of brothers of union council nazim Jamsheed Ali in the Manglor area. A house of another civilian also came under attack and a woman was killed.