Cornered Fazlullah will be nabbed dead or alive soon: NWFP Minister

September 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani security forces have nabbed a top commander of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Shura Nasim alias Abu Faraj from the Charbagh region in Swat. Sources said Faraj masterminded several suicide attacks which have rocked Pakistan in the recent past.

July 27th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Investigators in Pakistan have begun interrogating Sufi Mohammad, a day after he was arrested for making anti-government statements. It may be recalled that the detained cleric brokered a failed peace deal that put three million people under Sharia law but was shattered by renewed Taliban fighting.

July 24th, 2009 SWAT - A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has said militant leader Maulana Fazlullah is in good health, rejecting the claims by security forces that he was wounded in a military offensive in the country's northwest, the Online news agency reported. Pakistan military spokesman Maj.

July 23rd, 2009 PESHAWAR - The Taliban has rejected reports about its Swat commander Mullah Fazlullah being seriously injured, and has vowed to continue its 'jihad'. Talking to a foreign news agency over telephone from an undisclosed location, self proclaimed Taliban spokesperson Muslim Khan claimed that the whole Taliban leadership was alive and united.

July 19th, 2009 PESHAWAR - While news about him being seriously injured and nearing his death are doing rounds, Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah aka Radio Mullah has once again been heard over his illegal FM radio station. According to residents of Mingora, the largest town of the Valley, Fazlullah was heard making announcements on his illegal frequency three to four days back.

July 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has rejected government claims about Mullah Fazlullah fighting for life. TTP spokesperson Maulvi Umar said over the phone that all reports about Fazlullah were false and 'baseless'.

July 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Taliban chief Maulana Fazlullah may have been killed during an operation in the restive Swat Valley, a media report said Thursday. The security forces had traced a phone call of Fazlullah, who was giving directions to his commanders for conducting more attacks, the News International qouted sources as saying.

June 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Swat Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah may have been injured in the Pakistani military's offensive against the militants in the country's restive northwest, Interior Minister Rehman Malik was quoted as saying Monday. The security forces had laid a cordon around an area in which Fazlullah was holed up and there were reports of his being injured, Geo TV quoted Malik as saying, without elaborating.

June 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Despite the Pakistani military's anti-Taliban operation in the country's restive northwest entering its 56th day and claims of over 1,400 militants being killed, there was no visual evidence available of the successes achieved, an editorial in a leading English daily lamented Saturday. It also warned that unless the principal Taliban protagonists - Baitullah Mehsud and Maulana Fazlullah - were captured or killed, the war we fight now will continue for a year or even more.

May 29th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A day after the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain claimed that Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a military operation being carried out in the Valley, top security officials have denied the report. Senior security officials claimed that all the militant commanders including Mullah Fazlulah would be either killed or arrested by the Army, The News reports.

May 29th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Reinforcing the belief that Swat Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah is still alive, the Pakistani government Friday raised the bounty on his head tenfold to a staggering Rs.50 million ($617,000). Making the announcement in Karachi, Interior Minister Rehman Malik held Fazlullah directly responsible for a mass exodus that has seen some 2.9 million civilians fleeing the military's operations in Swat and two other districts of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), The News said.

May 29th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani military has denied reports that Swat Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah had been killed in operations in the troubled northwest. "High sources in the security forces have denied reports that Maulana Fazlullah had been killed in the ongoing military operations," Geo TV reported.

May 28th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan has claimed that Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a military operation being carried out in the SwatValley. Announcing a whopping four million rupees bounty on Fazlullah, the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain said the Army has confirmed the deaths of several top militant commanders.

April 27th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Heavily armed Taliban fighters are now reportedly moving towards the Kalam Valley in the upper reaches of the Swat River in Swat in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). According to The News, security forces have nabbed four suspected extremists with heavy weapons at the Khwazakhela check-post in the region.

April 26th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Taliban's Swat chapter commander, Mullah Fazlullah, has said that the Taliban would accept only 'Islam's writ' in the Valley. Making an announcement over his illegal FM radio station, Fazlullah said that the Taliban would not hesitate in more sacrifices if sharia is not implemented by the government in the Malakand division, the Daily Times reports.