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India-Pakistan
Govt to counter militant propaganda through radio in Fata
2014-11-15
[DAWN] The Pakistain government is set to launch FM radio stations in all seven tribal agencies with an apparent plan of disseminating information to counter bully boy propaganda in the militancy-hit area bordering Afghanistan.

In a statement issued here, the Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata) secretariat said that a central production house will also be set up at the secretariat.

Additional Chief Secretary Fata, Azam Khan has directed the authorities to make arrangements for setting up the radio stations in all tribal agencies of Fata.

The decision came against the backdrop of ongoing military offensives against local and foreign faceless myrmidons in the northwestern tribal regions of North Wazoo and Khyber.

Militant oraganisations use local radio stations to propagate their agenda besides threatening rivals.

Commander Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
of Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver....
has been using radio stations to broadcast 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 despite the ongoing Khyber-I military operation in the area.

Bagh is not the only bully boy commander to have used the tactic as current chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), 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...
became famous for his fiery radio speeches 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 before Pak armed forces pushed him and other accomplices out of the valley through targeted operations. He was once known as "FM Mullah" or "Mullah Radio".
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