The deceased were identified as Commander Jihadyar Mehsud, the military commission head of a breakaway faction of Jamaatul Ahrar; senior commander Aleem Khan alias Omar Kamal; and Jihadyar’s guard Ilyas Mehsud.
They were killed in clashes with supporters of Faridoon Khan Momand, Afghan member of the ‘Olasi Jirga’ (National Assembly).
Jihadyar, who had been a close confidant of TTP founder Baitullah Mehsud and his successor Hakimullah Mehsud, recently parted ways with TTP JuA and joined a breakaway faction, Hizbul Ahrar, over differences with Omar Khalid Khorasani, the head of JuA.
Jihadyar had joined JuA after the death of Hakimullah Mehsud in a US drone strike in 2013, and became the head the group’s military ‘shura’, or council, a militant leader told Daily Times on Thursday.
Published in Daily Times, February 23rd 2018.
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