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Pakistan Taliban chief escapes drone attack

India Blooms News Service | | 25 Nov 2014, 09:48 pm
Islamabad, Nov 25 (IBNS) The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah has escaped a US drone strike in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, media reports said on Tuesday.

Highly placed intelligence sources had told Dawn.com that the unmanned aircraft fired four missiles on a compound in Nazyan village in southeastern Afghanistan Monday night, killing at least five Pakistani and Afghan militants near the Pak-Afghan border.

Sources said intelligence reports suggested Mullah Fazllulah had been in the area near the zero-line for over a day. The strike was aimed at targeting the militant chief but he narrowly escaped, they told the Pakistani newspaper.

The identities of the militants, who were killed in the attack, hve notr be ascertained so far.

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