Wanted tribal leader killed in Pak raids
AP, Wana
Pakistani troops killed a former Taliban fighter who led fierce resistance to the army's effort to flush out foreign militants from a rugged region near the Afghan border, the army spokesman said yesterday. Nek Mohammed, who was allied with suspected al-Qaeda militants, was killed in an overnight mortar assault on a mud-brick fortress in the South Waziristan region. Four others were also killed. "We were tracking him down and he was killed last night by our hand," Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan told The Associated Press in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat on Friday told lawmakers in the National Assembly that Mohammed's killing was a "major success."
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