The Pakistani army said Wednesday, July 13, 2016 that the mastermind of the 2014 attack on an army-run school has been killed in a USA drone strike.
Advertisement
The alleged mastermind of the 2014 attack on a school in Pakistan in which more than 150 people died, majority children, has been killed in an American drone strike in Afghanistan, the Pakistan military and sources in the Pakistani Taliban said.
Reports suggest Umar Mansur was killed in Bandar area of Achin in Nanagarhar.
“The focus would now be on getting Abdul Wali, alias Omar Khalid Khurasani, and Maulvi Fazlullah, also believed to be in Afghanistan”, the officials said.
Seven terrorist of banned Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan with gun and explosives entered the Army school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, Pakistan and killed 144 students and staff members of the school on 16th December, 2016.
Further, an official who did not want to be named said Mansur might have been killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion.
On May 25, the US State Department designated the group among the Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT), days after Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a similar strike.
Advertisement
There was no confirmation of Mansour’s death from the TTP. Bajwa did not say where or when the drone strike took place. Child survivors of Pakistan’s worst ever terrorist attack returned to the school where Taliban militants massacred their classmates January 12, with both the students and their parents expressing a mixture of defiance and apprehension. Mansour later fled to Afghanistan after a military operation in the Khyber tribal region. He was held responsible for the September 2015 attack on a Pakistan Air Force base in Peshawar’s Badaber area, which killed 29 people.
