(AKI) - Militants in northern Pakistan's Swat Valley have announced a week-long ceasefire. Pakistani news network, Geo News, said on Monday members of a peace committee met Maulana Fazlullah, powerful chief of the banned Islamist militant group, Tehrik-i-Taliban, at an undisclosed location and discussed peace proposals with him.We've known the govt was gonna capitulate ever since they threw Perv out.
Fazlullah and his militant group are committed to strictly enforce Sharia law in the country. He has links to the Pakistani Taliban.
If Mullah Radio's the powerful chief of the banned Islamist militant group, Tehrik-i-Taliban you might think he has close ties with them. Who the hell writes this stuff?
Militants announced a ceasefire on a condition that security forces would not take any action against them.
Both Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants are active in the Swat Valley, which has been the target of an insurgency since August 2007. Hundreds of people have been killed in recent battles between security forces and militants led by Fazlullah.
In 2008, local Taliban militants targeted a number of schools in the region in a campaign to stop young girls attending school, and threatened further reprisals in 2009. Last year Taliban militants destroyed more than 130 schools in the Swat Valley and attacks on schools in the region reportedly deprived more than 17,000 students of education.