Pakistani militant with $3 million US bounty killed in Afghanistan: Report | World News

A senior Pakistani militant with $3 million US bounty on his head has been killed together with three aides in neighbouring Afghanistan, three militant commanders and an intelligence official stated on Monday.

Pakistani officers stated the loss of life of Abdul Wali, also referred to as Omar Khalid Khurasani, may deal a blow to nascent peace talks between Pakistan's Taliban, generally known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, and the Pakistani authorities after conferences facilitated by the Taliban rulers in Kabul.

Khurasani and his aides had been killed in an explosion from an obvious roadside bomb whereas travelling in a automotive in southeastern province of Paktia on Sunday, the sources instructed Reuters on situation of anonymity. They didn't say who they believed was behind the assault.

A fourth militant commander confirmed the loss of life on Twitter: "He is no extra with us," Ehsanullah Ehsan wrote in a tweet.

Khurasani was the chief of Jamat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a TTP department that's designated a terrorist group by the United Nations and United States, which had supplied $3 million for info resulting in his seize or loss of life.

The reviews of the loss of life of a senior Pakistani Islamist militant in Afghanistan got here only a week after the US stated it killed al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri in strike on a Kabul visitor home.

Kabul's Taliban authorities and the Pakistani navy and international workplace didn't reply to requests for remark. The TTP stated with out confirming the loss of life that it could launch an in depth assertion.

Khurasani's group had claimed accountability for a number of assaults towards police, navy, minority Shiite Muslims and Christians, which killed a whole lot of individuals in Pakistan.

For his robust anti-Shi'ite stance, Khurasani's group for some years had joined Islamic State group in Afghanistan and Pakistan earlier than returning to the TTP's fold final 12 months, officers say.

Among the many different three militants killed together with him, one was Mufti Hasan, who has been described by Pakistani officers as a senior commander working for Islamic State.

Khurasani, as soon as seen as hostile to any negotiations with the Pakistani authorities, was amongst TTP leaders who held a session of peace talks in Kabul with a delegation of spiritual students despatched from Pakistan, Pakistani officers have stated.

The TTP needs to overthrow the federal government in Pakistan and exchange it with a harsh model of Sharia regulation.