| GEO Pakistan | | ISPR denies reports of Mehsud killing | Updated at: 0352 PST, Friday, August 07, 2009
 ISLAMABAD: The spokesman Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence Agency (ISPR) Major General Ather Waheed said the death of Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud has not been confirmed.
According to sources, ISPR spokesman said the evidences regarding the killing of Baitullah Mehsud, the Taliban commander in Pakistan, have not been ascertained.
Earlier, Interior Minister Rehman Malik was quoted by a foreign news agency as saying that Taliban chief in Pakistan Baitullah Mehsud was likely killed in pilotless US drone aircraft attack on his residence but he did not confirm the incident to happen through proper evidences.
It is worth of mention that Mehsud is wanted by Pakistani government on account of involvement in assassination of former premier Ms. Benazir Bhutto and other terrorist attacks while US government had announced reward of five million US dollars for this head. |  |
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