Maulana Fazlullah, the dreaded chief of Pakistani Taliban, has been killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan's restive Kunar province, an Afghan defence ministry official said. Fazlullah was the man in charge of the Pakistan Taliban's (TTP) operations in Pakistan's Swat Valley when student activist Malala Yousafzai was shot in 2012.
He was designated as a global terrorist by the US and carried a bounty of $5 million. He had been on the run since his loyalists were routed in a major military operation in Pakistan's Swat district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in 2009. US forces had conducted the strike close to the border of Pakistan, targeting the to "Emir" of the group, according to US Forces-Afghanistan spokesman Lt. Col. Martin O'Donnell.
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