Pakistani militants confirm Hakimullah dead

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Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has admitted that their top leader Hakimullah Mehsud died a week ago from injuries ha had suffered earlier.

The militant group, based in northwest Pakistan's Orakzai tribal agency, has confirmed that the leader of the TTP died a week ago due to a neck injury while traveling from the eastern city of Multan to the southern port of Karachi for treatment, Pakistan's English-language Dawn newspaper reported.

US media reports said Hakimullah was injured during a drone attack on the Shaktoi district, near Multan, on January 14. Around 10 other people were killed in the attack.

Sources said that Maulvi Noor Jamal, a native of the tribal area of Orakzai, has assumed responsibilities as acting leader of the Pakistani Taliban.

Experts do not expect the loss of the 28-year-old commander, who engineered a series of devastating attacks and raids on markets, to deal a fatal blow to the pro-Taliban group as it battles the government in the country's Northwest.

Hakimullah was named new chief of TTP after the death of Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in August 2009 in a drone attack on the Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan.

Source: PressTV.
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