Faqir Mohammed

Faqir Mohammed
Born1970
Organization(s)Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
Haqqani network

Maulvi Faqir Mohammed (Pashto/Urdu: فقیر محمد; c. 1970) is an Islamist militant and, until March 2012, a deputy leader of the Pakistani Taliban umbrella group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.[1][2][3][4][5] He was reported as killed on 5 March 2010 during a helicopter gunship attack on militants by the Pakistani military although he denied the reports as false.[6][7] In July 2011, he resurfaced on the air broadcasting radio shows out of Afghanistan.[8] He was captured in Afghanistan on 17 February 2013, and released by the Afghan Taliban in 2021.

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