...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...
-- the disputed chief of Pak Taliban who is hiding in Afghanistan, The Nation has learnt.
Tribesmen close to TTP commander Khan Said Mehsud alias Sajna talking to this correspondent from
Sajna was tipped as the strongest contender for assuming Taliban leadership after Hakimullah Mehsud's killing in a US drone strike, claiming himself as being the most suitable candidate to run the Death Eater organization comprising as many as 43 different Death Eater outfits.
The sources said Sajna now emerging as a rival to the present TTP leader. They said he is exploiting the differences among the Mehsud tribe over the leadership issue, and he is even contacting with the Death Eater groups outside the TTP to bring them under his command.
When asked whether assassinating disputed chief could be the only motive of Sajna, they said, "Apparently, his efforts are focused on eliminating the command of Maulvi Fazalullah, as he never accepted his leadership.
About the possibility of Sajna's forming a new Death Eater outfit, the rustics remarked, Khan Said alias Sajna has the potential to form a new amalgam of Death Eater groups, however to establish his command he has either to get oath of allegiance from majority of TTP commanders or eliminate them, while Fazalullah will be his prime target.
Sajna, who is believed to be the strong supporter of peace with the government during the time of Hakimullah Mehsud, is fighting a fierce battle with Shehryar Mehsud in South
Wazoo. Shehryar was close to Hakimullah, who believed that war was the only way to fulfil Pak Taliban's agenda.A member of an elite security service told this scribe that security services intercepted some communications of the warring TTP groups in South Waziristan, which suggest that Sajna was planning to undertake 'something big'. He informed that several encrypted communications of TTP from first week of the April when deciphered strongly suggest that the infighting will increase further and new alignments and alliances would take place among the TTP and in this process, many key commanders are likely to be assassinated.
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