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Top Pak Taliban militant killed in US drone attack
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Taliban confirmed on Tuesday the death of a top militant commander Qari Muhammad Zafar who was targeted by US drone attack on February 24 in North Waziristan.
Qari Zafar, a former commander of Lashqar-i-Jahngvi, was heading five to 600 Punjabi Taliban in Waziristan and was wanted in the deadly March 2, 2006 bombing of the US consulate in Karachi which killed a US diplomat David Foy and several Pakistanis staffers of the consulate.
Besides his alleged involvement in the US consulate attack, Pakistans security officials also accused Qari Zafar for carrying out the devastating suicide bombing on Marriot hotel in Islamabad on September
20, 2008, killing 54 people.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Taliban confirmed on Tuesday the death of a top militant commander Qari Muhammad Zafar who was targeted by US drone attack on February 24 in North Waziristan.
Qari Zafar, a former commander of Lashqar-i-Jahngvi, was heading five to 600 Punjabi Taliban in Waziristan and was wanted in the deadly March 2, 2006 bombing of the US consulate in Karachi which killed a US diplomat David Foy and several Pakistanis staffers of the consulate.
Besides his alleged involvement in the US consulate attack, Pakistans security officials also accused Qari Zafar for carrying out the devastating suicide bombing on Marriot hotel in Islamabad on September
20, 2008, killing 54 people.
