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PESHAWAR: Backed by gunship helicopters, several hundred security forces Tuesday raided a madrassa run by well-known Afghan mujahideen and Taliban commander, Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani, at Danday Darpakhel village in North Waziristan tribal agency. This was the eighth time that the madrassa was raided and searched. Official and tribal sources told this scribe from Danday Darpakhel, a town near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, that a large number of troops from Pakistan Army and the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) along with Khassadars and Levies personnel first besieged the village and then raided the huge and famous madrassa known as “Manba-ul-Uloom”. Witnesses said...

BAJAUR, July 4: Three people, including a former leader of the Taliban, were killed in different incidents here on Wednesday. Maulvi Ghulam Syed Haqqani, former Taliban leader, was shot dead by unidentified assailants while he was going to a nearby mosque to offer Fajr prayers in the Mamond subdivision. He died on the spot. Sources said Maulvi Haqqani had also been attacked several times in the past. In one such attack some months back, his son was gunned down, they added. Maulvi Haqqani had held important positions in the provincial administration of Kunar during the Taliban rule. The sources said...