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Wana, 2 January 2014. The Taliban has celebrated the first death anniversary of the Mullah Nazir, Taliban commander in Wana Bazaar, South Waziristan on Thursday. More than 30 thousand people including local commanders of the Mullah Nazir Group attend the ceremony in South Waziristan. According to the local commander Zahid Wazir, whose near to Mullah Nazir, on the first death anniversary of the Mullah Nazir people from different areas attend the ceremony. On his death ceremony Wana Bazaar was close and they put the black banners on shops and vehicles. Religious leaders, Taliban commanders of Mullah Nazir Group including Molana...

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader thought killed in August strike in South Waziristan Unconfirmed reports from Pakistan indicate that the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was killed during a US airstrike in South Waziristan in late August. Tahir Yuldashev, emir of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, is said to have been killed in a strike by an unmanned US aircraft in the town of Kanigoram on Aug. 27, 2009. The strike took place in a known stronghold of the Taliban forces under the command of Mullah Nazir. Eight Taliban fighters and Uzbek fighters were reported killed...

AFP via translation - Engagements between islamist in Pakistani tribal zone: at least 106 dead WANA (Pakistan) - the engagements between Uzbek and islamist militants islamist local who have lasted for Monday in the Pakistani tribal zone made at least 106 died, indicated Wednesday to the AFP of the persons in charge for the local services of safety. Among the victims 78 Uzbek militants and 28 buildings appear, and half of them were killed since Tuesday evening, added under cover of anonymity. The engagements began after a leader local taliban, mollah Nazir, rejoined with the authorities to expel the foreign...