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Articles tagged with: Maulana Fazlullah
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After a brief lull, militants sow terror in the heart of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa once again.
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Aaj TV correspondent Farzana Ali shares stories of covering the conflict in Swat and South Waziristan, occasionally from behind the chadar.
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Following the intervention of Maulana Sufi Mohammad, the Taliban publicly announced their decision to pull out of Buner and even stage-managed the withdrawal of some of their fighters as they drove through the mountain passes on the way to Swat. But most Taliban fighters didn’t leave. The government later produced a record of a telephonic conversation between Maulana Fazlullah and his commanders in Buner in which he advised them to stay put after staging a pullout drama for the benefit of the media.
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The assassination of Musa Khankhel has brought to light the vulnerabilty of journalists reporting from volatile regions, caught between the ire of the security forces and the militants.
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Eighteen months of military operation has produced little results. The army achieved some significant successes last year, when they pushed out the militants from most of the areas, but an ill-fated peace deal signed by the provincial government allowed the militants to regroup and return to Swat.
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Some military commanders contend that the May 21, 2008 peace accord that the ANP-PPP coalition government in the NWFP signed with the Swati Taliban gave enough time to the militants to regroup and redeploy. The peace agreement collapsed in July 2008 and a new military operation was launched. However, it failed to dislodge the militants and now the military is in the midst of its third big action in Swat.
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“I’m not in favour of the imposition of the Taliban-style Shariah,” he says, “but we must acknowledge the reality that there are parallel states running Swat. In a large part of Swat, the Taliban have already enforced their version of the Shariah. And I know the local people are happy with their form of Qazi courts where speedy justice is provided.”
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Today, when the rest of the Swat valley is being torn asunder by the raging conflict between Pakistani security forces and Maulana Fazlullah’s band of militants, residents of Islampur, a small village located at a distance of 8km from main Mingora Town, are determined to prove that art and creativity cannot be subjugated by the forces of obscurantism.
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With the Taliban in control of most of the once pristine Swat valley, locals, politicians and security forces are demoralised, fearful and feuding about the best future action.
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Fearful of taking on the powerful religious forces, every incumbent government has refused to take a position on the curriculum and thus quietly allowed young minds to be moulded by fanatics. What may happen a generation later has always been a secondary issue for a government challenged on so many fronts.
