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Anti-Mehsud Taliban leader shot dead

ISLAMABAD: A Taliban commander from South Waziristan openly opposed to Beithullah Mehsud and part of an apparent plan to isolate the leader of the Pakistan Taliban from his tribesmen ahead of a likely military operation in the area was shot dead on Tuesday morning.

Qari Zainuddin, a 26-year-old Mehsud, who led his own band of militants, was shot dead by an unidentified gunman in his office in Dera Ismail Khan, from where he had recently given interviews to Pakistani and international media denouncing Beithullah Mehsud as an “agent” of America and India.

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