Credit - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty via Storyful 1:32

THE spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has confirmed the death of their deputy leader in a recent US drone strike in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region. “We confirm that deputy head of the TTP Khalid Mehsud died in a drone strike,” said the spokesman the spokesman, Mohammad Khurasani adding the drone strike that killed their leader Sajna was carried out on the border area between North Waziristan agency and Paktika province of war-ridden Afghanistan. The Spokesman also said the TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah, who a self-styled cleric is commonly known as Mullah Radio, appointed a commander called Mufti Noor Wali Mehsood to replace their dead deputy. In October, the TTP confirmed the death of the mastermind of the 2014 attack on a Pakistani school, in which 125 students were killed, some 15 months after Pakistan announced that the terrorist had died in a US bombing. He studied in a seminary in Faisalabad city in the heartland province of Punjab and recently wrote a book eulogizing the founder of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a 2009 drone attack.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) confirms its deputy leader Khalid Mehsud has been killed in a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan, near the border with Afghanistan.