UN Slaps Sanction On Pak Taliban Chief Mullah Fazlullah

08 April, New York

The UN Security Council has slapped sanctions on Pakistan Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah, mastermind of the Peshawar school massacre, for perpetrating and financing terror acts. Fazlullah was added to the UN Security Council Al-Qaeda Sanctions list Tuesday and will now be subject to assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo.

The Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan commander, nicknamed the”Radio Mullah”, was seriously injured in air strikes in Pakistan’s restive Khyber tribal area late last month.

There were unconfirmed reports of his death in the air strike. The US had in January designated Fazlullah as a global terrorist and had slapped sanctions against him.

Fazlullah was the leader of the Taliban in Swat Valley and became the Taliban chief after the killing of his predecessor Hakimullah in a US drone attack in November 2013.