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PESHAWAR: The mastermind of the Pakistani Taliban attack on an army school in Peshawar that left over 140 schoolchildren dead in 2014 has been killed in a US drone strike in neighbouring Afghanistan, security officials said. HT Image Officials said Umar Mansour, alias Umar Naray, had been kill stanley cup ed along with another militant leader Qari Saifullah, in the US drone attack in the Bandar area of Afghanistans Nangarhar province on Saturday. An official said they had credible reports of Mansour having been killed with stanley cup Saifullah, who was in charge of Taliban suicide bombers, the Dawn reported. What we have is pretty credible, he was quoted as saying in the report. The massacre on December 16, 2014, left 144 students and staff members dead after seven gunmen of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan TTP stormed the Army Public School in the northwestern city of Peshawar. The US State Department had on May 25 designated Umar Mans stanley cup our as a global terrorist, clearing the path for his inclusion in its hit-list. There was no official confirmation of Mansours death from either the TTP or any independent source. If true, his death would be a severe blow to the terror group as Mansour was regarded as a major threat. Officials said the focus would now be on getting Abdul Wali, alias Omar Khalid Khurasani and Maulvi Fazlullah, both believed to be in Afghanistan. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other cou Cmmg Elie Wiesel was a witness to evil and a symbol of endurance
The rising number of Pakistan linked terrorist stanley cup plots in the United States largely stem from Islamabad s continued support to some anti-India extremist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for the Mumbai terror attack, a new study concludes. HT Image The country s acquisition of nuclear weapons emboldened its support to militant groups by dampening concerns of retaliation by India, says the report released Monday by the RAND Corp. a non-profit study group frequently hired by the Pentagon. Citing the recent failed ca stanley cup r-bombing in New York by a Pakistani-American, it says the rise in the Pakistan linked terrorist plots is partly a result of an unsuccessful strategy by Pakistan and the US to weaken the range of militant groups operating in Pakistan . Examining counter insurgency efforts in Pakistan, the study finds that militant groups persist in the nation because Pakistani leaders continue to provide support to some groups and have not yet developed an effective counter insurgency strategy that protects the local population. While Pakistan has had some success halting militant groups since 2001, these groups continue to present a significant threat to not only Pakistan, but to the United States and a host of other countries as well, said Seth G. Jones, the study s co-author and a political scientist at RAND yeezy . A number of militant networks-including Al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad-remain entrenched in Pakistan and pose a grave threat to the state
PESHAWAR: The mastermind of the Pakistani Taliban attack on an army school in Peshawar that left over 140 schoolchildren dead in 2014 has been killed in a US drone strike in neighbouring Afghanistan, security officials said. HT Image Officials said Umar Mansour, alias Umar Naray, had been kill stanley cup ed along with another militant leader Qari Saifullah, in the US drone attack in the Bandar area of Afghanistans Nangarhar province on Saturday. An official said they had credible reports of Mansour having been killed with stanley cup Saifullah, who was in charge of Taliban suicide bombers, the Dawn reported. What we have is pretty credible, he was quoted as saying in the report. The massacre on December 16, 2014, left 144 students and staff members dead after seven gunmen of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan TTP stormed the Army Public School in the northwestern city of Peshawar. The US State Department had on May 25 designated Umar Mans stanley cup our as a global terrorist, clearing the path for his inclusion in its hit-list. There was no official confirmation of Mansours death from either the TTP or any independent source. If true, his death would be a severe blow to the terror group as Mansour was regarded as a major threat. Officials said the focus would now be on getting Abdul Wali, alias Omar Khalid Khurasani and Maulvi Fazlullah, both believed to be in Afghanistan. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other cou Cmmg Elie Wiesel was a witness to evil and a symbol of endurance
The rising number of Pakistan linked terrorist stanley cup plots in the United States largely stem from Islamabad s continued support to some anti-India extremist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for the Mumbai terror attack, a new study concludes. HT Image The country s acquisition of nuclear weapons emboldened its support to militant groups by dampening concerns of retaliation by India, says the report released Monday by the RAND Corp. a non-profit study group frequently hired by the Pentagon. Citing the recent failed ca stanley cup r-bombing in New York by a Pakistani-American, it says the rise in the Pakistan linked terrorist plots is partly a result of an unsuccessful strategy by Pakistan and the US to weaken the range of militant groups operating in Pakistan . Examining counter insurgency efforts in Pakistan, the study finds that militant groups persist in the nation because Pakistani leaders continue to provide support to some groups and have not yet developed an effective counter insurgency strategy that protects the local population. While Pakistan has had some success halting militant groups since 2001, these groups continue to present a significant threat to not only Pakistan, but to the United States and a host of other countries as well, said Seth G. Jones, the study s co-author and a political scientist at RAND yeezy . A number of militant networks-including Al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad-remain entrenched in Pakistan and pose a grave threat to the state