High chief of the Pakistan Taliban, Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, escaped unhurt from a suspected drone strike on a right house in jap Afghanistan on Friday, the militant group stated.
High Pakistan Taliban chief Maulvi Faqir Mohammad (Photo: File)
A high chief of the Pakistan Taliban escaped unhurt from a suspected drone strike on a right house in jap Afghanistan, the militant group stated Friday.
The strike on Thursday evening came every week after a ceasefire between the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the authorities collapsed, with militants accusing Islamabad of killing its opponents.
The TTP — a separate stream but sharing total roots with Afghanistan’s original leaders — plunged Pakistan into a period of horrific violence after forming in 2007.
Two TTP sources in the period in-between in Afghanistan urged AFP that Maulvi Faqir Mohammad was once the target of what they described as a drone strike on a compound in Chawgam village, in the jap province of Kunar bordering Pakistan.
TWO WOUNDED
“Maulvi Faqir Mohammad was once now not cloak on the time… two opponents of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan had been wounded,” one offer stated.
The compound was once being worn as a unpleasant by TTP opponents from Pakistan crossing the porous border with Afghanistan, he stated.
Mohammad was once arrested by the outdated US-backed Kabul authorities and spent years in Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram penal advanced, but was once released after the Taliban’s lightning takeover of the nation in August.
SOURCE OF STRIKE UNKNOWN
It was once now not sure who was once responsible for Thursday’s attack, but each and each Pakistan and the United States absorb beforehand worn unmanned aerial vehicles to habits assassinations in the field.
Bilal Karimi, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban, urged AFP from Kabul that the strike was once an explosive fired from the ground.
TTP AND PAKISTAN GOVT
The TTP emerged 14 years ago and absorb been blamed for spherical 70,000 killings by successive Pakistani governments.
Thursday marked the seventh anniversary of the TTP massacre of nearly 150 schoolchildren in Peshawar, an atrocity that stays seared on Pakistan’s national consciousness.
It brought on a 2014 crackdown by the militia which crushed the stream and compelled its hardline Islamist opponents into hiding in Afghanistan.
Pakistan is now searching for to quell a TTP comeback after the victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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