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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani officials said Saturday that a top Taliban leader had probably been killed in an airstrike, which would deal another blow to a militant group that fighters say has been leaderless since January.
Maulvi Faqir Mohammed, an al-Qaeda-linked commander of the Pakistani Taliban, was almost certainly among a large group of insurgents killed Friday in a Pakistani helicopter gunship attack in the Mohmand region of the unruly tribal areas, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters. Mohammed was the top leader in another tribal area, Bajaur agency, and a deputy of the broader Taliban organization in Pakistan.
