KHAR: Taliban on Saturday contradicted a government claim that Fazlullah was injured during military operation in Swat.

Maulvi Omar, a self-styled spokesman for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, said the top leadership in Malakand had gone underground under a plan.

‘Maulana Fazlullah is safe and the government claim is totally baseless,’ he told local journalists on phone from an undisclosed place.

He said that Taliban leadership was secure and he had talked to Maulana Fazlullah on phone today (Saturday).

Maulvi Omar said that innocent people were being killed in the military operation in North and South Waziristan.

The spokesman said that security forces did not make any gains in South Waziristan, where Baitullah Mehsud was present.

He said that raising lashkars (volunteer force) in Upper Dir district and tribal areas would create a civil war-like situation and warned that Taliban would take action against those who were leading the lashkars.