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Omar Khalid

Omar Khalid Khorasani (died 7 August 2022), born Abdul Wali Mohmand, was the leader of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and a former Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan leader. Khorasani commanded TTP insurgents in the tribal Mohmand Agency of northwestern Pakistan, and he was responsible for conducting guerrilla attacks against the Pakistan Army and terrorist attacks against Pakistani civilians.

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Umar Khalid Khurasani

Khorasani in Ghazi, 18 February 2017

Abdul Wali was born in Pakistan to a family of Sunni Muslim Pashtuns, and in 2007 he joined Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan during their insurgency against the government. That year, he took over an anti-colonialist fighter's shrine in Ghazi Abad and transformed it into a mosque, and in July 2008 he emerged as the top Taliban commander in the Mohmand Agency. In August 2014, however, Khalid was expelled by Maulana Fazlullah for forming dubious organizations, so he founded the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar terrorist group that was responsible for the 2014 Peshawar school attack that left over 140 people dead. In March 2015, he decided to rejoin the TTP. On 9 July 2016, he was reportedly killed in a US airstrike in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, but the TTP released a picture of him commanding an operation in Ghazi on 18 February 2017, confirming his survival. On 7 August 2022, however, he and two other senior TTP commanders were killed by a roadside mine in Birmal, Paktika Province, and their deaths were confirmed by a TTP spokesman.

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