Bin Laden ally killed in rocket attack By Ahmed Rashid in Islamabad and Peter Foster in New Delhi (Filed: 19/06/2004) Pakistan claimed a major victory against terrorism last night when it announced the death of a warlord believed to have sheltered al-Qa'eda fighters on the border with Afghanistan. Nek Mohammed, a former Taliban commander in his twenties, was killed on Thursday night by rocket and mortar fire as he hid in a mud-walled fortress in the hills outside Wana, in South Waziristan, Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan, an army spokesman, said. Mohammed's death removes a thorn from the side of President Pervaiz...