*PESHAWAR:* Anti Pakistan top TTP Commander has reportedly been killed inAfghanistan in a deadly drone strike.
Hazrat Ali, the notorious militant commander from Khyber Agency, commonlyknown as ‘Pistol Mullah’ (Tumanchay Mullah) was killed in a US drone attackin the Khogyani district of border Nangarhar province of Afghanistan,Pakisan Today has reported.
News of Pistol Mullah’s death reached his village and relatives at theLandi Kotal Khyber Agency late Tuesday night. However, he was killed in thedrone attack on Monday.
Hazrat Ali was the chief commander of Abdullah Ezzam Brigade, an affiliatedmilitant wing of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). This groupwas engaged in deadly terrorist attacks on NATO supplies throughout KhyberAgency from Peshawar till Torkham. A large number of drivers and theirassistants were also killed in the attack.
Besides targeting NATO supplies, Abdullah Ezzam Brigade had claimedresponsibilities for deadly attacks against anti-polio volunteers and theirsecurity guards in Jamrud Tehsil of Khyber Agency. Abdullah Ezzam Brigadewas also involved in a number of kidnapping acts, including formerambassador-designate of Afghanistan to Pakistan Abdul Khaliq Farahi,Iranian diplomat, former Pakistan ambassador to Afghanistan Tariq Aziz UdDin and others.
Tribesmen in Landi Kotal informed that there is no information regardingthe burial of Pistol Mullah as most of his family members went underground.
One of Hazrat Ali’s brothers, who after launching of military actionsKhyber One in 2014, was also killed in a similar US-led allied troopsaction across the border in Afghanistan.