Alhamdulillah...but i still hope the news is true!!!
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Unconfirmed reports about Hakimullah's death
Bad News
Fazal and Qazi pointed to be united and active again.(Just now)
See what they (MMA) do now?
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Unconfirmed reports about Hakimullah's death
ایک اور دشمن اسلام و پاکستان واصل جہنم ہوا
Bad News Fazal and Qazi pointed to be united and active again.(Just now) See what they (MMA) do now?
Fazal is already an ally of PP, and JI can be a future ally...so whats bad about it?
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Unconfirmed reports about Hakimullah’s death
LOL :rotfl:
Now its confirmed that he is dead
Pakistani Taliban: No need to prove leader alive - Yahoo! News
Pakistani Taliban: No need to prove leader alive
By RASOOL DAWAR, Associated Press Writers Rasool Dawar, Associated Press Writers – 2 hrs 1 min ago
MIR ALI, Pakistan – The Pakistani Taliban said Tuesday that there is no need to release proof that the group’s leader is alive to refute reports that he died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone strike in mid-January.
The comments by Pakistani Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq — a reversal from remarks the day before — could fuel speculation that militant chief Hakimullah Mehsud has in fact died and that the group is stalling to give it time to determine a successor. His death would be an important victory against an al-Qaida ally but would be unlikely to deal the organization a killer blow.
A similar situation played out in August when Mehsud’s predecessor was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan border. The Pakistani Taliban denied his death for almost three weeks, only admitting it after Mehsud was chosen as his heir.
“We don’t feel any need presently to release a video, but whenever we feel a need, we will do so,” Pakistani Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location.
The spokesman’s comments came a day after a close aide to Mehsud told the AP that the militant group would try to provide proof in a day or two that its leader was alive. The senior Taliban commander spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of government retribution.
Tariq called Sunday’s Pakistani television report that first announced Mehsud’s death propaganda and said the leader “is perfectly well, alive and staying at a safe location.”
The state TV report was apparently based on witnesses who said they attended Mehsud’s funeral last week in the Orakzai tribal area.
Tariq said Mehsud would not appear before the media to prove he is alive because it could endanger him.
“We are not going to fall prey to this trap and make our leader vulnerable to the spy network, and secondly, the leadership council has restricted the leader from speaking to the media for certain reasons,” said Tariq.
Army spokesman Gen. Athar Abbas said Monday that state agencies were still investigating reports of Mehsud’s death, saying they were apparently linked to a missile strike on Jan. 17 in South Waziristan that was earlier reported to have killed 12 people.
The U.S. is also likely eager to get confirmation of Mehsud’s death. The militant is believed to have played a key role in a suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan late last year that killed seven agency employees.
But getting accurate information from the tribal area where Mehsud is reported to have died is difficult.
The Pakistan army has a network of informants there, but many places are under effective militant control. There are few independent journalists working there.
Taliban commanders Waliur Rehman and Qari Hussain are seen as the two most likely successors to replace Mehsud. Hussain is known as the group’s chief trainer of suicide bombers. Rehman was the commander in South Waziristan.
The army launched a major ground offensive against the Pakistani Taliban’s main stronghold in South Waziristan in October, but many of the fighters are believed to have escaped to other areas in the northwest.
Pakistani troops killed eight Islamist militants Tuesday in the Bajur tribal area, a region where insurgents are staging a comeback after a military operation there was declared a success, a local official said.
The clashes in the Bajur region illustrate the tenacity of Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan, most of whom are allied with those waging war against U.S. and NATO troops across the border in Afghanistan.
Bajur was declared free of militants a year ago after a military offensive, but in recent days government officials say security forces have killed dozens of insurgents there. A militant suicide attack there killed 16 people on Saturday.
The latest deaths came during overnight raids in the towns of Damadola and Sewai, local government official Abdul Malik said. He said tribesmen loyal to the government hung the corpses of two alleged militants from an electricity pole in the Inayat Kali area in Bajur, though he did not know when the insurgents were killed.
There was no independent confirmation of the fighting or the identities of the dead.
The Taliban and al-Qaida are both present in Bajur, the northernmost segment of Pakistan’s semiautonomous tribal belt. The tribal regions are a suspected hiding area of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, and a regular target for missiles fired by U.S. unmanned planes.
The U.S. is eager for Islamabad to pursue militants on Pakistani soil, where Washington says they plot assaults on American troops in Afghanistan.
Associated Press writer Habib Khan contributed to this report from Khar.
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Unconfirmed reports about Hakimullah's death
News are still coming that he is dead and burried however nobody is ready to confirm that.
Re: BREAKING NEWS: Unconfirmed reports about Hakimullah’s death
His sucessor is suppose to be Maulana Toofan.
LOLz…I love that name…:rotfl:
Maulana Toofan new acting TTP chief?
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Taliban insist Hakimullah is alive
Bureau report
PESHAWAR: As reports of Hakimullah Mahsud’s death continued to circulate despite denials by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), reports from Orakzai Agency said a local Taliban commander Malik Noor Jamal alias Maulana Toofan was officiating as the acting head of the banned organization.
The reports said Malik Noor Jamal would head the organization until the TTP leadership decides its next course of action. The TTP again on Monday denied reports of Hakimullah’s death in the January 14 US drone attack in Shaktoi area in South Waziristan and insisted that this was part of propaganda started by the intelligence agencies and propagated by the “West-oriented” media.
There were unconfirmed reports that Hakimullah died last Friday after succumbing to his injuries at his father-in-law’s house in Stara Gadda village in Tajaka area of Mamozai tehsil of Orakzai Agency. The reports said he was buried in the Sama graveyard in Mamozai alongside the grave of a Palestinian militant, who was locally known as Kaka and was killed along with some Taliban in a US drone strike in Stara Gadda village last year.
The reports, still unsubstantiated, said Hakimullah’s father-in-law named Rahman was originally an Afridi tribesman settled in Mamozai area. His daughter was Hakimullah’s second wife and they got married last year. A son had been born to the couple.
The reports said despite the best efforts of Taliban they couldn’t get any doctor from Hangu to come to Mamozai and treat Hakimullah. One doctor who was suspected of having treated Hakimullah has now been cleared after investigations revealed he had been coming for duty to the government hospital during this period and had not travelled out of Hangu. The closure of almost all roads leading to Orakzai Agency by the security forces was also a big hurdle for the Taliban to bring a doctor for Hakimullah’s treatment or transport him somewhere else for medical care.
However, none of those providing this titbit of information were ready to say these things on record or reveal their names due to fear of retribution by the Taliban. Thus there is no way one can get confirmation of this information. In fact, the reports about Hakimullah’s death would be confirmed once Taliban admit that he is dead.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq rejected fresh reports about the death of Hakimullah Mahsud, and termed it a part of the propaganda by the enemy. The TTP spokesman issued a statement from South Waziristan, in which he refuted media reports that Hakimullah died of wounds suffered in a drone attack.
The TTP spokesman said there was no truth in these reports. He termed such reports as propaganda by the intelligence agencies and the “West-influenced media outlets”. He added that similar news had proved untrue in the recent past.
The spokesman said the government was deliberately circulating reports about the killing of the TTP chief to divert attention of the people from what he said its failure in solving the people’s problems.
Azam Tariq said the present government was facing a host of crises and such false news items were being spread to deflect the pressure mounted by the people who wanted solution to their problems.
The TTP spokesman said the government wanted an escape from the prevailing sugar and flour crises and other problems such as loadshedding and sky-rocketing prices. He alleged that the country was being ruled by thieves, dacoits and the NRO beneficiaries, who had manipulated the laws and constitution of the country.
The TTP spokesman said that the only job of the ruling elite was to appease the US at the expense of its own people. Azam Tariq said the armed forces were being used against the tribal people to provide a safe exit to the American and Nato forces in Afghanistan. He said that the TTP would not budge from its chosen path and continue its struggle against the US and its allies.
AP adds: Another close aide to Hakimullah Mahsud called the report of his death “government propaganda” and said he was “doing well.” “We will try in a day or two to give you proof that he is alive,” the commander told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of government retribution.
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**ISLAMABAD: A senior government functionary has told DawnNews on condition of anonymity that Hakeemullah Mehsud may have survived a** **drone strike.**
The official also maintained that another Taliban leader, Qari Hussain, may also be alive.
The government has not officially confirmed the speculations about his death.
The controversy was going on since the January 26th drone attack in the tribal areas whether Hakimullah Mehsud is alive or not.
Initially Taliban had claimed that Hakimullah is alive however the government and the military officials were giving mixed statements about the fate of Hakimullah Mehsud. -DawnNews