Pakistani Taliban elect Mullah Fazlullah as new chief

Pakistan News

Miramshah: The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (Ttp) have chosen Swat Taliban pioneer Mullah Fazlullah as their new boss, a week after previous supremo Hakimullah Mehsud was executed in a Us ramble strike in North Waziristan. "Fazlullah is the new Ttp head," Ttp guardian pioneer Asmatullah Shaheen said at a question and answer session at an undisclosed area in northwest Pakistan. "The choice was taken at a shura (board) gathering today," remote news organization Afp cited Shaheen
as saying. Fazlullah headed the Pakistani Taliban's ruthless two-year administer in northwestern Swat valley in 2007-2009 preceding a military operation retook the range. Consistent with the Afp report, there was overwhelming gunfire in festival in Miramshah, the fundamental town in North Waziristan tribal territory. The killing of Mehsud on Friday came as the Pakistani government said delegates were ready to meet the Ttp with a perspective to opening peace talks. The automaton strike triggered an irate reaction from Islamabad, with Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar blaming Washington for attacking peac effort.