[ATIMES] The death of the notorious Pak Taliban leader Commander Khalifa Omar Mansoor, who had criminal masterminded the carnage at an Army-run school in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
killing 132 schoolchildren on December 16, 2014, comes as a major blow to the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
The American and Pak military authorities jointly confirmed on July 13 that a US drone strike in the Nangarhar