Taliban leader believed killed
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March 7, 2010, Sunday
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A TOP Pakistani Taliban commander close to al-Qaida is believed to have been killed in an army air strike, officials said yesterday, in the latest apparent blow to insurgents who have attacked Pakistan and threatened US forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
Maulvi Faqir Mohammed was believed to be among some two dozen insurgents killed Friday at a sprawling compound in the northwest Mohmand tribal region, two intelligence officials said.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said authorities had not identified the bodies of Mohammed or his fellow commander Qari Ziaur Rehman, but all the militants hiding at the site were killed after the helicopter gunships were dispatched on "real-time" intelligence.
"If Faqir Mohammed and Qari Ziaur Rehman are alive, then I will be surprised," he told Pakistan's Express news channel after receiving a briefing from the paramilitary Frontier Corps in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
The intelligence officials said they were confident of their information, but warned that the remote, dangerous nature of the region made it nearly impossible to be definitive.
Maulvi Faqir Mohammed was believed to be among some two dozen insurgents killed Friday at a sprawling compound in the northwest Mohmand tribal region, two intelligence officials said.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said authorities had not identified the bodies of Mohammed or his fellow commander Qari Ziaur Rehman, but all the militants hiding at the site were killed after the helicopter gunships were dispatched on "real-time" intelligence.
"If Faqir Mohammed and Qari Ziaur Rehman are alive, then I will be surprised," he told Pakistan's Express news channel after receiving a briefing from the paramilitary Frontier Corps in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
The intelligence officials said they were confident of their information, but warned that the remote, dangerous nature of the region made it nearly impossible to be definitive.
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