Four TTP militants killed in S. Waziristan attack, claim sources

Zahir Shah Sherazi Published April 7, 2014

PESHAWAR: At least four Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants, including a key commander, were killed in the Shaktoi area of South Waziristan tribal region on Monday, sources said.

Official sources said unknown persons attacked a car in the Shaktoi area of South Waziristan Agency, killing four people and injuring another.

Other sources said that a clash occurred between the Khan Said alias Sajna and Waliur Rehman groups of the TTP.

The sources added that those killed in the incident included a key commander Kashed Khan Mehsud who is believed to be a local commander of the Hakimullah Mehsud group while the others were also TTP fighters.

Taliban sources had yet to confirm the deaths of its fighters

Earlier, a key commander and Shura member of the TTP Asmatullah Shaheen Bhittani had been killed in a targeted attack.

Intelligence sources said the Sajna group was behind the attack as Asmatullah Shaheen had opposed Sajna’s appointment and supported Mullah Fazlullah to replace Hakimullah Mehsud as TTP chief.

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Iqbal

Apr 07, 2014 02:44pm

Good riddance!

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Shafiq Khan Kakezai

Apr 07, 2014 03:45pm

It should not surprise anybody in Pakistan. Those who live by the rule of the gun will die by the gun. They know as much about Islam as they know about the inner workings of a smart telephone. They use both of these to their benefit as any animal will use any implement to satisfy its basic instincts. Murder and abuse of their women is the as acceptable to them as blowing up worshipers in a mosque. Are they any different from troupe of monkeys with a box of matches ?

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Fiza Zia

Apr 07, 2014 04:32pm

"khas kam jahan paak," this is how people react when you become a thorn in the side!!

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Zia Ur Rehman

Apr 07, 2014 04:37pm

Please correct : Clash occurred not between the Khan Said alias Sajna and Waliur Rehman groups of the TTP. It is between Hakimullah Mehsud faction and Sajna group.

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Salim A

Apr 07, 2014 05:36pm

@Zia Ur Rehman: Nobody really cares which group killed off who. Eventually, these people are programmed by their own inner extreme self righteousness to turn on each other, until the last man standing. And IK thinks these people can be negotiated with. What a fool.

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saifullah mahsud

Apr 07, 2014 07:14pm

@Salim A: I appreciate your sentiments but we the analysts tasked with the impossible job of making sense of ongoing mayhem in FATA do care. Dawn please take note of Zia Ur Rehman's post and make the necessary correction.

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Ahmer

Apr 07, 2014 10:01pm

No matter who killed whom. What matters is that there are four less beasts on our scared soil.

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independentthinker

Apr 08, 2014 01:21am

This is the most interesting "cease-fire" I have ever seen. Negotiations are going ahead, progress is being made and yet, insurgents are getting killed and so are innocent civilians. No one takes responsibility and yet, life is going on as usual. I don't know how it would be different, if there was no ceasefire - other than Pakistani military going full force against the Talibans.

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