Fazlullah seriously injured: Rehman Malik

[Naveed Yaseen]

ISLAMABAD: Fugitive Taliban leader Fazlullah has been critically injured in the ongoing military operation in Malakand Division, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Wednesday.

“It has been confirmed that he has been hit and seriously injured," he told the BBC in an interview. He said most “Taliban leaders” hid during the military action. “However, we will flush them out of their hideouts," he added. Malik urged the international community, especially the United Nations, to help Pakistan determine the source of the Taliban’s funding. “The militants sitting in South Waziristan and planning terrorist activities, I won't call them Taliban, I would call them Zaliman (oppressors),” Malik said. To questions, he said the government had anticipated “unity” among the extremists once it launched an offensive against Baitullah Mehsud. “Be it Gul Bahadur or Commander Nazeer, be it Qari Hussain or Baitullah or Hakimullah – they are all branches of the same tree. They are all hardcore terrorists who should be called Zaliman and not Taliban,” he added. app

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