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Another Tehreek-i-Taliban commander killed

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One of the senior Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan(TTP) commander was killed in Afghanistan on Thursday. The TTP commander was killed in a bomb attack. The millitant and intelligence sources confirmed the news to AFP on Thursday.

Sheharyar Mehsud, head of a millitant group which is a part of TTP, was the target of the remote controlled bomb blast in Kunar area. A Pakistani TTP commander told AFP. A Pakistani intelligence official who affirmed the happening said Mehsud escaped to Afghanistan in 2016.

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The incident comes almost two weeks after two other key TTP commanders were killed. Khalid Haqqani and Qari Saifullah Peshawariwere were killed in a clash with security forces.

It was not quite clear who was behind the killings, which have come as the US and the Afghan Taliban — which is discrete from the TTP(Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan) — show up near a leap forward on an arrangement for an American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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