Pakistan Taliban confirms US drone kills leader

JuA is blamed for a large number of deadliest terrorist attacks in Pakistan in recent years that killed many people. Khorasani, whose real me was Abdul Wali, had parted ways with the main Taliban faction in 2014 over serious differences over the leadership. Reports also suggested that the group’s central council has nomited Asad Afridi as its new leader. Some reports also said that Khorasani was killed earlier in Afghanistan’s ngarhar province, where the group is believed to have established its bases. The United States has increased air strikes in Afghanistan after President Dold Trump unveiled his strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia in August.

Pakistan army also confirmed on Tuesday that military operations were conducted in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost and Paktiya provinces over the past few days by the Resolute Support Mission (RSM) and Afghan Forces, opposite to Pakistan Kurram Agency, with reports of “heavy losses to terrorists”. The army did not identify those killed in the operations but said “coordition between the forces of Pakistan and Afghanistan has enhanced” after the army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s visit to Afghanistan on October 1. In July The UN Security Council’s Sanctions Committee approved the addition of JuA in the list of entities and individuals subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo. (IANS)