Pakistani militant with $3 million US bounty killed in Afghanistan: Report
A senior Pakistani militant with a US $ 3 million prize on his head was killed together with three helpers in the neighboring Afghanistan, three militant commanders and an intelligence official said on Monday.
Pakistani official said Abdul Wali’s death, also known as Omar Khalid Khurasani, could give a blow to a newborn peace conversation between the Pakistani Taliban, known as Pakistan’s tea-e-taliban or TTP, and the Pakistani government after meeting facilities by the Taliban or TTP, And the Pakistani government after Meet Mings by The Taliban ruler in Kabul.
Khurasani and his maids were killed in an explosion from a clear roadside bomb while traveling by car in the southeastern province of Paktia on Sunday, the sources told Reuters on anonymous condition. They did not say who they believed was behind the attack.
A fourth militant commander confirmed death on Twitter: “He is no longer with us,” Ehsanullah Ehsan wrote in a tweet.
Khurasani is the Head of Jamat-ul-Ahrar (Jua), the TTP branch appointed as terrorist groups by the United Nations and the United States, which has offered $ 3 million for information that leads to his arrest or death.
The report of the death of a senior Islamic militant of Pakistani in Afghanistan came only a week after the United States said they killed Al Qaeda Ayman Al-Zawahri’s leader in strikes in a Kabul guest house.
The Taliban Kabul government and Pakistani military and foreign offices did not respond to requests for comments. TTP said without confirming the death that they would release a detailed statement.
The Khurasani group has claimed responsibility for several attacks on police, military, minority and Christian Shiite Muslims, which killed hundreds of people in Pakistan.
For a strong anti-shi’ite attitude, the Khurasani group for several years has joined the Islamic State group in Afghanistan and Pakistan before returning to the folds of TTP last year, officials said.
Among the other three militants killed with him, one is Mufti Hasan, who has been described by Pakistani officials as senior commanders who work for the Islamic state.Khurasani, who was once considered hostile to negotiations with the Pakistani government, including among TTP leaders who held a peaceful talks session in Kabul with a delegation of religious scholars sent from Pakistan, said Pakistan officials.
