A leading Pakistani militant leader, who was behind the 2009 attack on Sri Lankan Cricket Team in Lahore, has been killed in eastern Afghanistan, militant sources said on Sunday. The attack on Sri Lankan cricket team had killed seven police officials, and injured seven players including senior Lankan cricketers.
Qari Ajmal, a leader of the banned sectarian "Lashkar-e-Jhangi," group was killed in a joint operation by the foreign and Afghan troops in Aurgon area of Paktika province that borders Pakistan, local media quoted the militants sources as saying.
Ajmal had fled to Waziristan tribal region after the attack and joined the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan under Hakimullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone strike in November 2013. He later fled to Afghanistan like many other Pakistani militants and had been living with the Pakistani Taliban in Paktika, which borders Pakistan.
Ajmal is the second senior Pakistani militant commander who has been killed in Afghanistan in nearly two weeks.
The US-led Nato and Afghan forces killed a leading Pakistani Taliban commander, Azam Tariq and his son in Paktika province on September 25.
Omar Masnoor alias Naray, the mastermind of the brutal Army Public School attack that killed nearly 140 students and staff members in Peshawar, was killed in a US drone strike in eastern Nangarhar province, which borders Pakistan.
Tribal sources say that the foreign and Afghan forces also arrested Naseer Wazeer, a senior Taliban commander of Hakikmullah group during the operation in Paktika.
Most of the Taliban from Waziristan tribal area live in Paktika after they fled to Afghanistan as the result of military operations, according to security forces.
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