US drone strike kills leader of Pakistan's Jamaat-ul-Ahrar militants
The leader of Pakistani militant group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, who planned some of the deadliest suicide bomings in Pakistan in the last year, died on Thursday after being wounded in a US drone strike in Afgahnistan, a spokesman said.
"Our leader, Omar Khalid Khorasani, was wounded in one of the recent drone strikes in Afghanistan. He was wounded badly, and today he was martyred," Asad Mansoor, a Jamaat-ul-Ahrar spokesman, told Reuters by telephone.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar is a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban and has in the past also supported Middle East-based Islamic State.
