Taliban chief Fazlullah reported injured: ISPR

Maulana Fazlullah, the commander of the Pakistani Taliban in Swat valley, has been reported injured during an offensive against the insurgents, the army spokesman said Wednesday. The army had "credible" information that Fazlullah was hit, military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told a press conference in Islamabad, giving no further details about the hardline cleric's condition. "In one of the strikes, Fazlullah has been injured," he said, adding to a foreign news agency that the air strike wounding the commander hit two days ago in Swat. Radical cleric Fazlullah is the architect of a nearly two-year Taliban uprising to enforce sharia law in the Swat valley, where the military have been engaged in a two-month battle to dislodge the Islamist fighters.

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