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Taliban leader's brother killed in NW Pakistan

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-11-01 16:41
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud's brother was gunned down Monday afternoon in North Waziristan tribal area, northwest Pakistan, local TV channels reported.

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Local residents have identified the dead as Yaqoob Mehsud, a brother of Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud, according to the private TV channel Express.

However, the official sources have confirmed only the assassination but not his identification as Mehsud's brother yet.

According to the details, Yaqoob was shot dead by unidentified militants in sub district Mir Ali, an administrative town in the troubled North Waziristan that borders Afghanistan.