Tehreek -e-Taliban spokesperson has denied the death of Mullah Fazlullah in the following statement (translation from Urdu) received Monday March 23rd 2015

“News about the life losses of Taliban and Amir Fazlullah are completely wrong. We deny all these claims, only three Taliban were martyred. On other side Army had heavy life losses, three army men were beheaded and are with ourselves. We can confirm that 30 Army man were killed this time. Mujahiden are in gorilla war so army just tells lies to the media and in confusion army target civililian population, homes and houses. This is history of brutality and we will revenge. They do not know the location of Amir Fazlullah and if known the location will be failure of Taliban Intelligence. But they don’t know”

In a separate statement (23rd March 2015) TTP also had this to say,

“The dream of Allama Iqbal and Islamic Democratic Pakistan….. is that a free Islamic state or British, USA slave Democratic state? This (Pakistan) came into being under the ideology of Doctrine of nationalism, but at this time in Pakistan and India there is only one system which is democratic. Here (Pakistan) demand of Islamic law (Shariat) is known as Terrorism. Pakistan Army is still the faithful of the British and USA.

Here if any one is burnt alive then media query that suspected terrorist was burnt. And if some one attack on their front line then media called it “terrorism”. Today Muslims property and life is not safe. Mosques are targeted by the gun ship helicopters. Any one who gives moral support to those who demand Islamic law is called guilty. Pakistan jails are full of Muslims and it is a naked truth that no one has courage to arrest Raymond Davis. Instead of that he was killer of Muslims and of two workers and instead of trial they release him with respect.

Here (Pakistan) love and faith with non-Muslims is remarkable, they give them airports from where drones killed thousands of innocent people. All of these non-Muslims are friends. Hired killers, Black water, CIA, ISI live in the face of diplomats but Madrassas (ISLAMIC Schools) was considered as terrorist centres.”

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Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad . She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.