[Khaama (Afghanistan)] According to reports, a top Pak Taliban leader Omar KHalid Khorasani has been injured following an operation in Afghanistan.Khorasani was reportedly injured following a military operation conducted jointly by the Afghan national security forces and the coalition forces.
He is the supreme commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) faction Jamaatul Ahrar
...A Pak Taliban
splintergroup that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough...
The group's front man Ehsanullah Ehsan
...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency...
quoted by The Express Tribune newspaper of Pakistain confirmed that Khorasani was injured in an operation in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province.
"I can confirm that Omar Khalid Khorasani has been injured in a joint operation by the Afghan and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
forces in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province," Ehsan said.
"Khorasani has now been shifted to a safe place and he is improving," Ehsan said, adding that "We lost nine colleagues in the raid."
He did not disclose further information regarding the exact date when the operation was conducted. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
he said no prominent leaders of Jamaatul Ahrar were killed in the raid.