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Know the Pak Taliban chief Radio Mullah Fazlullah who ordered attack on Malala

New Delhi: Hailing from the Swat district in Pakistan, Maulana Fazlullah is the first non-Mehsud chief of the Tehrik Taliban Pakistan.He is unlike Baitullah and Hakimullah Mehsud who hailed from the Waziristan region of the

India TV News Desk Published : Nov 10, 2013 23:36 IST, Updated : Nov 12, 2013 6:35 IST





His mentor cum father-in law Maulana Sufi Mohammad spearheaded the Taliban uprising in Northern Pakistan.
 
They were effectively in control of the scenic Swat valley from 2007 and in early 2009 they gained de facto control of the entire Malakand division until an army offensive ejected them in the summer.
 
Fazlullah got his first taste of frontline combat experience in 2001 when his mentor Maulana Sufi Mohammad took him along with thousands of others to Afghanistan to fight the Americans.
 
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