[DAWN] The Tehrik-e-Taliban Geedar group commander who claimed the deadly attack on Bacha Khan University in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
's Charsadda Wednesday is Umar Mansoor, the de facto operational head of TTP in KP.
Journalist Hasan Abdullah tells Dawn.com Mansoor is the faction's commander specifically in Charsadda, Darra Adam Khel, Noshera and surrounding areas. "He had been very close to Hakimullah Mehsud's inner circle and was also close to Umar Khalid Khorasani at one time," says Abdullah.