US confirms killing of APS massacre mastermind in Afghanistan drone strike

RAWALPINDI: Umar Khalid Khurasani, the mastermind of the gruesome terrorist attack on the Army Public School Peshawar, has been killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan, the top commander of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan confirmed on Wednesday.

According Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Lt-Gen Asim Bajwa, Commander Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan (RSMA) General John Nicholson spoke to Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif over telephone today and confirmed the killing of terrorist Umar Mansour Narai in the drone strike in Afghanistan.

Comd RSM called #COAS, confirmed death of terrorist Umar Narai alias Khalifa Umar,also alias Khalid Khurasani through drone strike in Afgn

— Gen Asim Bajwa (@AsimBajwaISPR) July 13, 2016

Umar Mansour Narai – also known as Khalifa Umar Khalid Khurasani, a militant commander of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – was the mastermind of the 2014 massacre of 132 children and nine staff at a military-run school in Peshawar – the deadliest militant attack in Pakistan's history.