A Pakistani journalist watches a video of radical Pakistani cleric Maulana Fazlullah in Peshawar.
Miranshah (Pakistan) (AFP) - The Pakistani Taliban appointed a hardline cleric linked to the attack on Malala Yousafzai as their new chief Thursday and dismissed proposed peace talks with the government as a "waste of time".
Maulana Fazlullah, notorious for leading the militants' brutal two-year rule in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley, was elected to replace Hakimullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone strike last Friday.
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