Maulana fazlullah biography of michael

LAHORE: Mullah Fazlullah, who was killed in a recent US drone strike in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, was among the most ruthless Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leaders.

Born in 1974, Fazal Hayat (his real name) was not inclined to pursue his family business of farming.

Instead, he found a new vocation after he joined a religious seminary in Malakand which was owned and operated by a hardline cleric, Sufi Mohammed.

Mohammed was the leader of his own religious faction, Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM), and it inspired a number of young men in his immediate neighborhood.

In 2001, when US forces invaded Afghanistan in the wake of the Sept.

11 attacks in New York and Washington, the TNSM leader cobbled together a ragtag militia of young volunteers in and around the Malakand region to fight alongside the Afghan Taliban against the American military.

According to some accounts, this was