Umar Mansoor aka Umar Naray Killed

[Tamilnadu]

two terrorists dead around the same time,one wani bumbed and this in Afganistan,can it be some kind of understanding between India,Pakistan and US.

 

[HariPrasad]

do you confirm his death?

if true, Thanks US, They do good once in a blue moon..

Yes, by targeting bed terrors some time after killing some angels like Mullah Mansoor.

 

[Max]

Yes, by targeting bed terrors some time after killing some angels like Mullah Mansoor.

kill Mullah Haibatullah too.. i have no problem, nor Pakistan govt will object on his killing..

 

[HariPrasad]

kill Mullah Haibatullah too.. i have no problem, nor Pakistan govt will object on his killing..

I know when US killed him drone attack, all of you including your government protested. Now you are getting happy.

 

[Max]

I know when US killed him drone attack, all of you including your government protested. Now you are getting happy.

we objected on timing, US said he was against peace talks, Pakistan being organizer of peace talks denied it and we questioned why US killed him in Pakistani soil while they were tracking him from Iran., moreover US, Afghan forces daily kill afghan Taliban do you ever heard Pakistan saying a single word against it?

 

[Tair]

My own sources confirmed this .. so there is 98% chance this is true.

Who r ur sources? (just kidding)

Great news if its true... although nothing can bring back those kids back... but am sure the parents will sleep in peace....

But I wished he should be captured alive and torture in a way that he begs to kill him but he wont die...

 

[optimisticlad]

Very easy death for such a monster.

is it confirmed that the dog is dead????
but there is no buzz on social media or electronic mediaa....


SIr....ISPR ki tweet b ni aye .....

 

[American Pakistani]

Be it cow, bull or camel shyte it is on the face of the rabid posters here who claim TTP was a creation of CIA/Mossad/RAW. Yet Pakistan needed their very help to take this terrorist out.

TTP is a splinter group of Afghan version. The more cruel ones became TTP. Pakistan claims and many analysts knows TTP was created by indians to create troubles for pakistan.

As for CIA, they created Afghan version from which ttp was born.

Read history before posting, kumar.

 

[Bratva]

Reports just coming in that Mastermind of APS Umar Naray has been killed in Afghanistan in a drone strike .

Well this time it took long to confirm his death. Warna to confirmation usually comes within 24 hours

 

[I M Sikander]

Thank you Uncle Sam..

Why thank you uncle Sam. First they provide them safe heaven in Afghanistan and then hunt them down once their utility is over and replace them with another puppet.

 

[pakdefender]

Indians thought that they could repeat 71 by supporting yet another terrorist organisation against Pakistan

Between 2007 - 2009 , they thought in TTP they have got the new Mukti Bani

Along with supporting TTP , supporting terrorism in Balochistan was the other attack that India made on Pakistan

Alhumdolillah , today Indian designs have been thwarted

 

[Zarvan]

Reports just coming in that Mastermind of APS Umar Naray has been killed in Afghanistan in a drone strike .

I never knew that Umar Naray or Khalid Khurasani are same guy. But good riddance

 

[Counterpunch]

Good job Pakistan! I am sure it is the backdoor diplomacy that has resulted in the guy being taken out.

I don't know but you guys have so conveniently over looked a very important attitude shift on part of Pakistan globally. No matter how much the media portrays Pakistan as the rogue state or India jumps joyously at Pakistan's mention in bad words: it is Pakistan that is not giving any damn to all that propaganda and is going about it's business as just another day. Guess this is the universal law of good parenting where you do not over-shout the kid if you want to mend his behavior, and if you do, it will only make him desensitize to all the bullying.

The good here is that people in the know and helm of things are doing what they should do. They are uprooting the menace of terrorism, bringing about elimination of corruption (ground work being done at least), providing an environment that isolates and rejects anti state and anti people elements, equipping our military with what is required and are strongly backing economic developments with their sweat and blood. Guess what, time is near when it will be the world that will be frustrated with the 'who cares' attitude of Pakistan and having exhausted all their options at re-shaping its borders, destroying its economy, killing its people will look at their own hands to see they are bloodied beyond cleaning, will recognize Pakistan as the force to reckon.Pakistan , I am sure, has adopted China's silence policy and will only come out stronger and bolder in very near future.

 

[Solomon2]

Well this time it took long to confirm his death. Warna to confirmation usually comes within 24 hours

Omar Mansoor’s killing a big blow to Pakistan Taliban
BY AMIR MIR on JULY 26, 2016 in ASIA TIMES NEWS & FEATURES, SOUTH ASIA

Khalifa Omar Mansoor, one of the most brutal militants responsible for a string of deadly attacks across Pakistan, was killed in a US drone strike on July 9. This is the first time the US has taken out a Pakistani Taliban commander in Afghanistan, suggesting a strategic shift in American policy and a new level of understanding between Washington and Islamabad. While Masoor’s death deprives Taliban of a master organizer of terror attacks, the incident can improve ties between the two countries strained after a US drone killed leader of Afghanistan Taliban Mullah Akhtar Mansour in May

ISLAMABAD–The death of the notorious Pakistani Taliban leader Commander Khalifa Omar Mansoor, who had masterminded the carnage at an Army-run school in Peshawar killing 132 schoolchildren on December 16, 2014, comes as a major blow to the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).


Pakistan Taliban leader Khalifa Omar Mansoor was killed in a US airstrike along with another leader on July 9

The American and Pakistani military authorities jointly confirmed on July 13 that a US drone strike in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan killed Mansoor. He was killed on July 9 in the Bandar area of Nangarhar along with Qari Saifullah, leader of the group’s suicide squad.

Mansoor was viewed by Pakistani security agencies as a major threat for his skills in organizing a string of terrorist attacks. After he fled to Afghanistan following the launch of Operation Zarb-e-Azab (Operation Sharp Strike) by the Pakistani military in North Waziristan in 2014, he did not target Afghan or American forces. Instead, he was organizing terrorist operations in Pakistan.

He was not considered as a threat to the United States until the State Department declared him a ‘global terrorist’ on May 25, 2016 — four days after a US drone killed the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in Quetta, the capital of the Baluchistan province.

Mansoor, also known as Omar Naray in jihadi circles, was a close aide of the fugitive TTP leader Mullah Fazlullah. He had pledged to attack Pakistan’s educational institutions describing them as “the basis of Pakistan’s evil, democratic system.”

He was held responsible for the September 2015 terrorist attack on a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) base in Peshawar’s Badaber area in which 29 people were killed.

The US State Department notification on May 2, 2016 declared his Taliban group – Tariq Gedar Group (TGG) – as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

TGG is linked to TTP and was responsible for deadly fidayeen attacks on the Army Public School in Peshawar in December 2014 (that killed 144 people including 132 schoolchildren) and the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda in May 2015 (that killed 21 people, mostly students).

The TGG was also held responsible for the 2010 kidnapping of a British journalist from North Waziristan and the 2008 abduction and beheading of Polish geologist Piotr Stanczak in the Attock district of Punjab.

The TTP, which is allied with al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban, comprises over two dozen smaller jihadi factions from Pakistani tribal belt like Khalifa Omar Mansoor’s TGG.

After Operation Zarb-e-Azab was launched and Pakistani political and military leadership began appealing to the American leadership to take action against TTP, the main leaders of the group shifted their base to Afghanistan.

The killing of Omar Mansoor has fulfilled Pakistan’s demand that the US should take action against Taliban leaders who are operating from Afghanistan. This is the first time the US has taken out a Pakistani Taliban commander in Afghanistan, suggesting a strategic shift in American policy.

The formal confirmation by the top US military commander in Afghanistan to the Pakistani Army Chief General Raheel Shareef about the killing of Mansoor has reinforced the view that the United States and Pakistan have reached a new level of understanding.

A Reuters profile titled ‘Pakistan’s most hated man: volleyball player, child killer’ had described (on January 20, 2016) Omar Mansoor as a 37-year-old father of three and a volleyball enthusiast who was nicknamed “Slim”.

A video posted on a Taliban website after the Army Public School attack showed a man with a chest-length beard, who sought to justify the December 2014 butchery of innocent schoolchildren. The caption identified him as Omar Mansoor Naray.

The video described the school attack, in which gunmen wearing suicide-bomb vests blew up children, as retaliation for the military offensive carried out by the Army in North Waziristan.

“If our women and children die as martyrs, your kids will not escape,” Mansoor threatened in the video. “We will take revenge on innocents whenever you attack us.”

The school was attacked because of being a soft target and also because most of the students belonged to military families, as mentioned by the TTP spokesman Mohammad Khorasani in his responsibility claim.

The spokesman said: “The school attack was in retaliation for launching operation Zarb-e-Azab against us. The school was targeted because nearly all the students were the children of Army personnel. We selected the Army Public School because the military is targeting our families. We want them to feel the pain as they are killing our children.”

Investigations into the school massacre revealed that the attackers were communicating with Omar Mansoor across the border in Afghanistan while they were carrying out the butchery. Mansoor threatened more revenge attacks if the military and the security agencies did not stop operations against the Taliban militants in the tribal belt.

The unprecedented school attack had shocked the entire Pakistani nation where women and children are protected even in war. After being driven out of their sanctuaries in the tribal borderlands of the Waziristan region, most of the Pakistani Taliban commanders have found sanctuaries close to the border in Afghanistan, where they continue to train and send death squads to urban centers of Pakistan to sow mayhem.

Mansoor, who used to operate from the Naziyan district of eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, was the most lethal of them. A former activist of the anti-US and anti-Shia Pakistani militant-cum-sectarian outfit, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Mansoor’s real name was Aurangzeb.

Aurangzeb had been using three different names – Omar Naray, Omar Adenzai and Omar Khalifa. But he preferred the last name – Omar Khalifa – as it conferred on him some respectability in the jihadi ranks besides making him important in the hierarchy of the TTP.

Mansoor completed his high school education from Islamabad and studied at a religious seminary in the federal capital. He had two brothers and reportedly spent some time working in the port city of Karachi as a laborer before joining the TTP soon after its formation in December 2007 by Commander Baitullah Mehsud.

The killing of Mansoor has given relief to the Pakistani security establishment which was extremely worried over his group’s non-stop terrorist activities in Pakistan.

Even though the TTP has not yet commented on the reports of Mansoor’s death, officials in the Pakistani security agencies are sure about his having been “droned.” They even claim that the followers of Mansoor have already selected Mufti Muhammad Iqbal aka Mufti Ghufran Ullah as the new commander of the TGG in place of Mansoor.

Some in the Pakistani military circles view the killing of Mansoor as a milestone in the ongoing fight against militancy in the country. Even otherwise, they argue, both for operational and psychological reasons, the death of a terrorist who was determined to have wreaked havoc inside Pakistan is a victory for counter-terrorism.

According to them, Pakistani military leadership should now persuade their Americans counterparts to target the remaining TTP leaders who are operating from Afghanistan, especially the Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah and Commander Omar Khalid Khurasani.

Both of them have already been tagged by the US State Department as ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorists.’

Amir Mir is a senior Pakistani journalist known for his research work on Islamic militancy and terrorism in Pakistan. He has authored several books including “Talibanization of Pakistan: From 9/11 to 26/11,” “The Bhutto Murder Trail: From Waziristan to GHQ,” “The True Face of Jehadis” and “The Fluttering Flag of Jehad.”