Afzal khan lala biography examples

A Pakistani nationalist hero who locked horns with the brutal Taliban regime during a bloody insurgency in the Swat Valley has died of liver disease aged 89.

Pashtun leader Afzal Khan Lala was said to have survived more than 10 assassination attempts by the fundamentalist Islamic fighters.

Lala received nationwide praise and notoriety after his brave stand in Swat when he despite numerous threats from the Taliban insurgency, multiple attacks on his home and a bloody military confrontation that displaced millions.

He died in a military hospital in the garrison city of Rawalpindi before being buried on Sunday in the scenic valley he once lived.

In 2007 the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa fell under the control of the Pakistani Taliban, and the once popular tourist spot was turned into a warzone, by radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah.

Fazlullah was accused of a number of serious beheaded opponents, burnt schools