Police stand armed in Swat, Pakistan

SWAT: Five important militant commanders including Maulvi Alim Binori and Maulana Shamsul Haq were killed in Madain area of Swat tehsil of Behrain.

According to government sources, the security forces and the extremists exchanged fire at 4:20AM today’s morning, where all five extremists were killed and three SMGs, 2 pistols, 3 grenades and a lot of jihadi literature and CDs were received from their possession.

The deceased also include Muhammed Musafir, Sher Zaman and Abdullah.

Muhammed Alim Binori is said to be an important extremist commander who had head-money of Rs20 million on him. He was known as the Mullah Radio.

Alim belonged to Shagla area of Lailonai and joined Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in 2007. Before joining the militant outfit, he used to teach at a primary school in tehsil Khawzakhela and lived for seven years in Fathapur of Khawzakhela.

“The bodies of the insurgents were placed in the main bazaar of Madyan, where the residents identified the pair,” said the police officer, Jan. He said Binouri was a close aide of fugitive Swat Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah.

Binouri was killed along with fellow-commander Shankoo Mullah, while three other wounded militants were captured alive, the military official said.

The bodies were taken to Swat’s main town Mingora, where the wounded insurgents are being interrogated.

Fazlullah, who has a 50-million-rupee bounty on his head, remains at large.