Maulana Fazlullah,Pakistan Taliban commander,was seriously injured in military operations in the countrys northwest,which also witnessed fresh sectarian violence that killed 27 people on Wednesday. It has been confirmed that he (Fazlullah) has been hit and seriously injured, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said. Most Taliban leaders were hiding because of military action,but the authorities would bring them out of their hideouts,he told the BBC. These militants who are sitting in South Waziristan and planning terrorist activities from there,I wont call them Taliban,I would call them zaliman (wrongdoers), Malik said. He said the unity among militant factions in the wake of the decision by authorities to target Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud was something the Government anticipated. Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur,leader of a militant faction considered to be pro-Government,scrapped a peace deal in North Waziristan and decided to resume operations in retaliation for military operations in the tribal belt. Be it Gul Bahadur or Commander Nazeer,be it Qari Hussain or Baitullah or Hakimullah (Mehsud),they are all branches of the same tree. They all are hardcore terrorists who should be called zaliman and not Taliban. The militant commanders had formed small groups,which were later united into a larger group called the Tehrik-e-Taliban,he said. When these terrorists saw that Pakistans enemies were giving them a lot of cash and cars and that there is good money in this,then they also involved the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammad in their work. Therefore,what happened as a result was that al-Qaeda transferred all its terrorist activities to the Tehrik-e-Taliban, Malik said. President Asif Ali Zardari,who reviewed the security situation and operations against the Taliban during a meeting with Prime Minster Yousaf Raza Gilani and Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani said the fight against militancy and terrorism would end with the complete elimination of militants. Meanwhile,clashes between rival Shia and Sunni tribesmen intensified in Kurram tribal agency with the latest violence claiming 27 lives,reports reaching here said. A pro-government tribal leader along with his driver and bodyguard was killed in an ambush in Khyber tribal agency,police said. Haji Gul Shah,an elder of the Kokikhel tribe who had survived three previous attempts on his life,was attacked by unidentified assailants near Teddi Bazar in the Jamrud area of Khyber agency. Meanwhile,despite the Armys claims that it had cleared most parts of Swat valley and nearby districts of militants,fresh clashes were reported at several places in these areas during the past 24 hours.
