INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TTP appoints new leader after deadly drone strikeTehreek-e-Taliban Taliban (TTP) announced it had appointed a
new leader on Saturday after the militant group confirmed for the first time its former chief Maulana Fazlullah was killed in a US drone
strike last week.Fazlullah is believed to have ordered the failed 2012 assassination of Malala Yousafzai, who became a global symbol of the
behind the massacre of more than 150 people, including more than 100 schoolchidren, at a Peshawar school in December 2014.US forces targeted
army chief in phone calls.In a statement sent to AFP on Saturday TTP spokesman Mohammad Khurasani confirmed Fazlullah was killed in the US
drone strike."It is a matter of pride that all leaders of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan have been martyred by infidels," Khurasani said,
replace him, he added.Pakistan has long been accused of supporting the Afghan Taliban and providing safe haven to its leaders -- charges
"positive development".The militant leader went into hiding in Afghanistan in 2009 and his death "gives relief to scores of Pakistani
families who fell victims to TTP terror including the (school) massacre.
