Swat residents now flying anti-Taliban banners: 'Where is the shameless Fazlullah?'

Salaam — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:31:27 GMT

PESHAWAR: The display of anti-Taliban banners by unknown persons in various areas of Kabal was the topic of discussion in Swat on Monday and majority of people hailed the move as a sign of an end to the Taliban era.

Kabal residents said on Sunday that they saw anti-Taliban banners calling leader of the Swat militants Maulana Fazlullah a "shameless" person. "Where is the shameless Fazlullah?" was the slogan inscribed on one of the banners. One can infer from the writing on the banner that those having displayed the banners were criticising the Taliban leader for going underground.

Other slogans included, "Taliban's friend is the nation's foe," and "The Taliban movement is virtually the movement of oppressors."

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Swat Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah resurfaces in Afghanistan

Salaam — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:45:08 GMT

Last we checked in on the Swat Valley, women were reveling in the removal of Taliban restrictions while suspected Taliban supporters were being tortured and lynched by locals or receviing much the same from the military. As one embittered hotel owner in Swat said, "Even the Israelis have not done such bad things to the Palestinians as the Taliban did to us."

Now the leader of the Swat Taliban has reappeared in Afghanistan, and he's promising vengeance.

"I have reached Afghanistan safely," Maulana Fazlullah told BBC Urdu.
"We are soon going to launch full-fledged punitive raids against the army in Swat."
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He issued a warning to the North West Frontier Province's information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain.
"The authorities should beware, especially Mian Iftikhar Hussain, whose fate will be like that of Najibullah," he warned, referring to Dr Najibullah who was Afghan president before the Taliban hanged him in 1996 when they took Kabul.

Najibullah* was tortured, castrated and executed without trial by the Afghan Taliban in 1996, after which his body was dragged through the streets and hung from a lamp post.

* Juan Cole today linked an article by a UN official who spent some time visiting with Najibullah just before the Taliban killed him. The official asked Najibullah if he regretted the blood on his hands from his time serving as head of the Afghan secret police under the communists.

"Dear Alan, do not be naïve about what you are facing. They will bring a destruction you cannot imagine."
His message to me, at our New Year meeting in 1995, was one of no regrets for whatever he had done to stand against the Islamists. He was absolutely clear about that; he would do it again.

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Swat residents now flying anti-Taliban banners: 'Where is the shameless Fazlullah?'

Swat Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah resurfaces in Afghanistan