A senior commander of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was mysteriously killed in Afghanistan.
The TTP member was found dead on Thursday (November 17th) in a water canal in the Bati Kot district of eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province.
The TTP commander has been identified as Saifullah Babuji, a resident of Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Babuji was reportedly a close affiliate of a TTP deputy, Amir Mufti Mazlom.
The Taliban has not yet explained how the TTP member was killed. Recently, an armed clash erupted between the soldiers of Taliban and Pakistan at a border crossing in the Spin Boldak district of Afghanistan. Following the clash, several videos surfaced on social media, showing that an alleged Taliban member firing at Pakistani troops. The Taliban later said that an unidentified gunman has carried out the attack.
This is the second TTP commander to be killed in the eastern Afghanistan in the past two days. Unidentified gunmen shot dead another TTP commander named Zakirin on Thursday (November 17th) in Paktia Province.