A local Taliban commander was killed and four of his aides injured when a US drone targeted their hideout in Shaktoi area of Ladha tehsil in South Waziristan Agency late on Friday. The political administration sources said the drone fired two missiles that landed near the house of local Taliban chief Ameer Abdullah Mehsud. Commander Zar Jan Mehsud of the Kekarai tribe died in the attack while four others sustained injuries. The sources said a meeting was underway in the compound when the missiles struck the house. Meanwhile, the agency's political administration started a crackdown against the Mehsud tribe and arrested dozens of tribesmen, besides sealing their business centres in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank districts.