A senior Pakistani militant with $three million US bounty on his head has been killed at the side of 3 aides in neighbouring Afghanistan, 3 militant commanders and an intelligence legitimate stated on Monday.
Pakistani officers stated the dying of Abdul Wali, additionally referred to as Omar Khalid Khurasani, ought to deal a blow to nascent peace talks among Pakistan’s Taliban, referred to as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, and the Pakistani authorities after conferences facilitated via way of means of the Taliban rulers in Kabul.
Khurasani and his aides have been killed in an explosion from an obvious roadside bomb at the same time as journeying in a automobile in southeastern province of Paktia on Sunday, the reassets informed Reuters on circumstance of anonymity. They did now no longer say who they believed changed into at the back of the attack.
A fourth militant commander showed the dying on Twitter: “He’s no greater with us,” Ehsanullah Ehsan wrote in a tweet.
Khurasani changed into the leader of Jamat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a TTP department this is unique a terrorist organization via way of means of the United Nations and United States, which had offered $three million for statistics main to his seize or dying.
The reviews of the dying of a senior Pakistani Islamist militant in Afghanistan got here only a week after the US stated it killed al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri in strike on a Kabul visitor house.
Kabul’s Taliban authorities and the Pakistani army and overseas workplace did now no longer reply to requests for comment. The TTP stated with out confirming the dying that it might launch an in depth statement.
Khurasani’s organization had claimed obligation for a couple of assaults in opposition to police, army, minority Shiite Muslims and Christians, which killed loads of human beings in Pakistan.
For his sturdy anti-Shi’ite stance, Khurasani’s organization for a few years had joined Islamic State organization in Afghanistan and Pakistan earlier than returning to the TTP’s fold final year, officers say.
Among the alternative 3 militants killed at the side of him, one changed into Mufti Hasan, who has been defined via way of means of Pakistani officers as a senior commander operating for Islamic State.
Khurasani, as soon as visible as antagonistic to any negotiations with the Pakistani authorities, changed into amongst TTP leaders who held a consultation of peace talks in Kabul with a delegation of non secular students despatched from Pakistan, Pakistani officers have stated.
The TTP desires to overthrow the authorities in Pakistan and update it with a harsh model of Sharia law.
