Pakistan Taliban promote number two to replace slain leader
Sat Nov 2, 2013
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban voted on Saturday to promote their number two commander, Khan Said, also known as Sajna, to replace leader Hakimullah Mehsud who was killed in a strike by a U.S. drone, militant commanders and security sources said.
Said is believed to have masterminded an attack on a jail in northwest Pakistan that freed nearly 400 prisoners in 2012 and an attack on a Pakistani air force base in the same year.
Mehsud was killed by a U.S. drone in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghan border, on Friday.
(Writing By Katharine Houreld; Editing by Robert Birsel)
Source http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINDEE9A101S20131102
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