Pakistan carried out air strikes on Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) positions in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Thursday night. Pakistan has claimed to have destroyed many hideouts of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) while carrying out air strikes on Kabul. According to Pakistani media reports, TTP chief Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud has been killed in this airstrike. According to reports, when Pakistan carried out the airstrike, Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud was present at a hideout in eastern Kabul and it is being claimed that he was killed in the attack.
On the other hand, the spokesperson of the Afghan Taliban government rejected these claims and said that there were no casualties in this attack. The special thing is that Pakistan has taken this action at a time when Afghan Foreign Minister Aamir Khan Muttaki is on a seven-day visit to India.
This claim is happening now
Afghanistan’s Tolo News reported that an audio message of Noor Wali Mehsud surfaced on social media on Friday morning, in which he was heard calling the news of his death and disappearance false. Earlier, many reports had claimed that the TTP chief had been killed in the airstrike, but after this audio the situation has become more complicated and there is confusion about the attack. Now the question in everyone’s mind is who was Noor Wali Mehsud. Let us know who is Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud
Who is Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud
Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud was born on 26 June 1978 in the Machikhel Zafarkhel sub-clan of the Mehsud tribe in South Waziristan. According to the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) report, he received religious education from madrassas in Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Karachi and later started teaching in a madrassa in his village. However, with time he took the path of radicalism and eventually became the commander of TTP. He joined Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam at a young age. When the alliance between the US and Pakistan was formed after the 9/11 attacks, Noor Wali saw it as a betrayal against Islam.
Included in Pakistan’s most wanted list
Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud is included in the list of most wanted terrorists of Pakistan. After the killing of Mullah Fazlullah, he took command of the organization and became the fourth chief of TTP. Mehsud joined this organization in 2003 and continued leading the terrorist activities of TTP in Karachi till 2013. Noor Wali Mehsud started his terrorist career in the 1990s by fighting with the Afghan Taliban. He supported the Taliban during the US invasion in 2001 and joined Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in 2003. In the organization, he was the deputy of Baitullah Mehsud and then the head of the Karachi chapter. After the death of Maulana Fazlullah in 2018, the Central Shura of TTP made him the new chief.