At least 13 terrorists were killed including a high level commander of Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan when US drone targeted the tribal belt near the border with the North Waziristan region of Pakistan.
The commander, Khan Sayed, also known as Sajna, led a breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban. According to sources, Naeem Kochi and Kifayat Kochi were also among the terrorists killed in the drone strike.
North Waziristan’s Shawal Valley was a stronghold of Sajna, whose name was added to a sanctions list of “specially designated global terrorists” by U.S. authorities last year.
The drone strike occurred in the Damma region in Khost Province, near Shahadianu Patala, a Pakistani town in North Waziristan, the Pakistani intelligence officials were quoted by the New York Times.
They said the strike had killed 12 other militants and wounded 20.
