Suicide attacks if military operation launched: Taliban

SWAT - Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat chief Maulana Fazalullah on Sunday warned that they would carry out suicide attacks if military operation was launched against them.

“We are determined to continue our efforts for Islamisation not only in Swat and Pakistan, but also throughout the world,” remarked Maulana Fazalullah while talking to a group of media men in Taraan near Kabal town of Swat district. Following the footsteps of his group’s central leader Baitullah Mehsud, who had recently invited media men from all over the country to his stronghold of Spinkai Raghzai in South Waziristan, Maulana Fazalullah also appeared before media in the mountainous region.

Maulana Fazalullah, surrounded by a number of armed and masked militants, appeared before the media in Government Primary School Taraan, which is under the control of the militants. Almost all the people from surrounding areas have already migrated to other places and no one from the area is allowed to go inside the school. The whole of the region is under the control of the militants.

The media men had to go by foot to Taraan beyond Shah Dheri and Dewlai towns for listening to Maulana Fazalullah. They had to walk through rough mountainous areas for around three hours.