Pakistani Taliban will choose new leader

Intelligence officials and militant commanders say the Pakistani Taliban are meeting to choose a new leader after their chief was killed in a US drone strike.

Pakistani Taliban will choose new leader

Intelligence officials and militant commanders say the Pakistani Taliban are meeting to choose a new leader after their chief was killed in a US drone strike.

They say the Taliban’s leadership committee is meeting at an undisclosed location today in the North Waziristan tribal area, the same region where a US drone strike killed the group’s leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, yesterday.

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