US drone strikes kill 21 Taliban militants in Afghanistan

NewsBharati    09-Mar-2018
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Kabul, March 9: At least 21 Taliban insurgents, including the son of Mullah Fazlullah, the leader of Pakistani Taliban, have been killed in a US drone attack In Aghanistan. The US has not made any comment on the strike so far.

Pakistani officials and Taliban commanders, on condition of anonymity, said two missiles fired from a US drone hit a militant facility in Kunar province. They said the missiles targeted a compound frequented by Mullah Fazlullah who is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan.

The intelligence officials said that Fazlullah was apparently not there, but his son was killed in the strike in Afghanistan's Kunar province, miles away from Pakistani border.

Fazlullah's is the son-in-law of a Sufi Mohammad, a radical anti-US cleric who was recently freed by Pakistan. The cleric, imprisoned in Pakistan in 2009, was released in January from a prison in the northwestern city of Peshawar, following a court order for his release on health grounds earlier that month.

Last month, a suspected US drone strike on the Pakistani side of the border killed the deputy leader of the TTP, which has been waging a campaign of bombings and other attacks on Pakistani forces.