PESHAWAR: A key figure of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Mira Khan aka Mufti Khalid, was killed in Kunar province of Afghanistan on Saturday.

He was a close associate of Mullah Fazllulah, the TTP chief who died in a drone attack in 2018, also in Afghanistan.

Reports said that the cause of Mufti Khalid’s death was internal rivalry between two factions of the TTP.

Published in Dawn, May 30th, 2021