Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Fazlullah may have been killed in the ongoing military operation in Swat, a private TV channel reported on Thursday. Somehow I doubt it.
Malik said "it will soon become clear whether Fazlullah has been killed or not".
Not finding the body's not proof he's not been killed.
He said the army would not be called back after the Swat operation concludes.
They pulled the army back last time they beat up the Swat Talibs, and the turbans came strutting back in.
"The price of a child suicide bomber is between Rs 0.5 million to Rs 2.5 million and the cost of preparing a vehicle for a suicide attack is around Rs 12.5 million," Malik said.
The price of both sounds kind of high for the area. Human life doesn't get much cheaper than in Islamist dominated territory.
The interior minister said the weapons and explosives used by the Taliban were being smuggled into the country from Afghanistan.
The point of origin before they got to Afghanistan was Pakistain, naturally. But we won't go into that.