The Pakistani Taliban have a new leader. According to a Taliban spokesman, Mullah Fazlullah has been designated by the Board met after death in a drone shot last Friday of HakimullahMehsud. The new leader of the Islamist rebels is known for its fundamentalist positions and several bloody attacks, including one that nearly cost the lives of the young MalalaYousafzai.
With our correspondent in Islamabad, GaëlleLussiaà-Berdou
Among the candidates for leader, the Taliban could hardly have made a more radical choice.MullahFazlullah became known in the Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan, where he led a faction that has imposed a reign of terror from 2007 to 2009.
In his biography published last month, MalalaYousafzai describes the horrors of the reign that is also called the ” Mullah Radio “for his fiery speeches on the radio at the time.
Opposed to talks
Summary executions, corpses exposed in public, bombed schools last year, the young activist for the right to education itself has borne the brunt of the violence, when sent by a Taliban Fazlullah has shot him in the head.
Here he is at the head of thirty Taliban factions, when the Pakistani government wants to start talks with the rebels. Mullah Fazlullah opposes the talks, the Taliban announced. Last month, while in Islamabad the basics of what we stood peace process, he claimed the assassination of a general. The message could not be clearer.
Mullah Fazlullah, the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban
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