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Man who 'kills humans like chickens' to replace Hakeemullah as Pak Taliban chief ?


New York, Feb.6 (ANI): Even as the US and Pakistani governments are uncertain over death of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Hakeemullah Mehsud, reports indicate that the banned extremist organisation has appointed its new commander.

According to The New York Times, Maulvi Noor Jamal, a native of the restive Orakzai region, has assumed charge as an acting leader of the TTP.

It is worth mentioning here that Orakzai is one of the most strategically situated parts of the ungoverned tribal areas because of its proximity to more settled and peaceful parts of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and its capital, Peshawar.

Jamal was recently seen officiating the flogging of a teenage boy and two men in a video, aired by a private television channel.

According to the newspaper, Jamal, is in his late 30s and was a teacher and prayer leader at a local religious school before he was made a Taliban commander in Kurram by Hakeemullah, who is supposed to have died in a US drone attack in North Waziristan last month.

Jamal was given the additional responsibilities for the adjoining area of Orakzai when the Pakistani military began an offensive against the Taliban in its stronghold South Waziristan in October.

He is also considered as brutal, and ferocious a warrior like his predecessors Hekeemullah and Baitullah Mehsud.

"He kills humans like one will kill chickens," said one resident, on conditions of anonymity, who ran away from Kurram last year because he was wanted by Jamal. (ANI)

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wrote on 02-06-2010

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From news article:
_ July 9: A pair of suicide bombers kill 72+ people and wound 111 in the Mohmand tribal region.

_ July 2: Twin suicide bombers attack Pakistan's most revered Sufi shrine in the eastern city of Lahore, killing 50+ people and wounding 180.

_ May 29: Two teams of seven militants armed with hand grenades, suicide vests and assault rifles attack two mosques of the Ahmadi minority sect in Lahore, killing 97 and wounding dozens.

_ May 18: A remote-controlled bomb kills 13 people, including three police, in Dera Ismail Khan, a northwestern city hosting thousands of tribesmen displaced from a military offensive in South Waziristan.

_ April 19: A suicide bomber apparently targeting police at a conservative Islamic party rally in the northwestern city of Peshawar kills 23 and wounds more than 30.

_ April 18: Two burqa-clad suicide bombers attack refugees lined up to register for food and other relief supplies in Kohat district in the northwest, killing 41 people and wounding dozens more.

_ April 5: Militants unleash a car bomb and grenade attack against the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar, killing four people.

_ April 5: Hours before the consulate attack, a suicide bomber attacks a rally of an anti-Taliban political party in Lower Dir district, killing 45 people and wounding more than 70.

_ March 13: Two suicide bombers targeting army vehicles in Lahore kill more than 55 and wound more than 100.

_ March 8: A suicide bomber rams an explosives-laden vehicle into a building where police interrogate high-value terror suspects in Lahore, killing 13 people and wounding 45 others.

_ Feb. 18: A bomb tears through a mosque in the Khyber tribal region, killing 29 people and wounding 50 more.

_ Feb. 5: Two bombs targeting the Shiite Muslim minority sect in southern Karachi city kill 33 and wound 176.

_ Feb. 3: A suicide bomber kills three U.S. servicemen and three civilians in the northwest's Lower Dir region.

_ Jan. 1: A suicide bomber drives a truckload of explosives into a volleyball field in Lakki Marwat district in the northwest, killing at least 96 people and wounding more than 100.