The US on Friday announced a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of the banned terror outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan which has carried out several deadly attacks, including the 2014 Peshawar school massacre in which over 150 people, mostly students, were killed.
The announcement by the State Department came a day after Fazlullah’s son was reported killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan.
In 2012, Fazlullah ordered the assassination of Pakistani school girl Malala Yousafzai for promoting girls’ right to education and publicly criticized Fazlullah and the TTP, it said. Malala was seriously injured in the attack and had to be shifted to the UK for specialised treatment.