The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesperson Khalid Balti alias Muhammad Khorasani has been reported killed in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province.
SAMAA TV and other TV channels reported his death on Monday evening citing sources.
The sources said that Khorasani had fled to Afghanistan after operation in North Waziristan’s Miran Shah where he had been operating a terrorist hideout.
He was involved in several terrorist attacks in Pakistan.
Pakistani security forces had launched the operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan in 2015.
The outlawed TTP had appointed Khorasani as the group’s spokesperson in November 2014.
He succeeded Shahidullah Shahid.
The sources said that Khorasani was still involved in planning terrorist attacks against Pakistan, indicating recently that there would be more attacks.
He was part of Mufti Noor Wali group of the TTP.
Khorasani was the head of the militant group’s Umar Media wing and was the person who claimed responsibility for TTP attacks including the APS attack in Peshawar.
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