ISLAMABAD: Hakimullah Mehsud, chief of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), is alive and safe, Dawn News reported late on Friday.
“Hakimullah is well and safe in North Waziristan… the news related to his killing in the drone attack carried out by the US military is incorrect,” an official source said. His claim was backed up by two independent sources, cited Dawn.
Mehsud, leader of one of the most potent Pakistan based Taliban groups, was reportedly killed in a January 12 drone strike. However, neither the US nor local officials could confirm he had been killed.
Pakistani and US sources said that Mehsud was not targeted in the drone strike, and one Pakistani source said: “He is alive. Hakimullah is alive.”
The TTP, though said that Mehsud was not even in the same district, and that their leader was safe.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly mentioned the date of the drone strike as June 12. The correction has been made.
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Why do the innocents give shelter to terrorists?
TTP chief Hakimullah Mehsud is alive: Report Dozens of innocents are dead: No Report
We as a nation clearly know what is more important!
Look on the bright side, "in the long run, we're all dead'' ~~ J.M.Keynes
Still, in the longrun, we're all dead. ~ Keynes
and the blind drones miss thier target again
pls correct june 12 to january 12
oh wow this was one of those rare occasions where drone has been put to good use but the news turned out to be false.
And the game goes on !!!
so much for the supposed efficiency and accuracy of Drone attacks.. meh..my mom aims her punches better than this ;p
Speak up! Tribune Liberals! now
Who believed that he was killed ?
So the other story is wrong. This is not helping us. Nobody knows who got killed then how they are being reported as "terrorists". Stop this massacre of innocent people otherwise menace of terrorism will be every where on the roads of Pakistan.