A top leader of Pakistan's Taliban may have been killed in a clash with Afghan troops near the border, a senior Afghan police official said Thursday, possibly improving safety in the Swat valley.
Maulvi Fazlullah, leader of a Taliban group in Pakistan's Swat Valley, was allegedly killed along with six of his comrade in barg Matala district in Afghanistan's Nuristan Province, which lies close to the border with Pakistan, said Mohammad Zaman Mamozai, skull of the Afghan border force eastern area.
"Maulvi Fazlullah was killed in a direct clash with Afghan border police ... last night," he said.
He had no further in order. The Afghan Taliban have long-established the fighting but said no foreign militants were concerned.
The reports of Fazlullah’s death come after several days of clashes between Afghan forces and militant in barg Matala.
Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, head of a Pakistani Taliban faction base in Bajuar tribal region, has deprived of media information that Fazlullah was leading on all attacks in Afghanistan.
"He could be in Nuristan Province, because the Taliban have enthused back and forth along the (Pakistan and Afghanistan) borders," he told Reuters by telephone prior reports Fazlullah death.
"He can stay in Nuristan Province But he is not concerned in any fighting there," he said.
Jaffar Khan, a top police officer in Chitral, which is conflicting the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan Province, said there were reports Fazlullah fighting in Nuristan Province in the history two days, but it was not long-established.
In a BBC meeting in November, said Fazlullah had fled to Afghanistan after a Pakistani military unpleasant against the Taliban in their stronghold in Pakistan's north western Swat valley in April last year.
The Pakistani army has a crowd turnout of about 30,000 in Swat and the nearby areas, but there are signs that Swat Taliban attempts a comeback.
Thus died Fazlullah better security in Swat, where he beforehand reigned, "said Mehmood Shah, former security chief in Pakistan's tribal area.
"Swat is likely to steady a lot," he said. But he was not much of a shape in the overall Taliban. “
The TTP is under force from military operations in Orakzai, he said, referring to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, a loose group of more than a dozen groups in various parts of northwest Pakistan.
"So I think it will have a good effect in Swat," he said. But I do not think it will have a few additional effects "in other area.
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