US drone strike kills leader of Pakistan’s Jamaat-ul-Ahrar militants — spokesman
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan: The leader of Pakistani militant group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, who planned some of the deadliest suicide bombings in Pakistan in the last year, died on Thursday after being wounded in a US drone strike in Afghanistan, a spokesman said.
“Our leader, Omar Khalid Khorasani, was wounded in one of the recent drone strikes in Afghanistan. He was wounded badly, and today he was martyred,” Asad Mansoor, a Jamaat-ul-Ahrar spokesman, told Reuters by telephone.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar is a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban and has in the past also supported Middle East-based Daesh.
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I've read it said that the violence in Afghanistan is actually imported in from Pakistan, via the Taliban and al Hakkani network. I'm unsure of the exact wording of that last part.
