Peshawar: the tehreek-i-taliban geedar group commander who claimed the deadly assault on bacha khan university in khyber pakhtunkhwa's charsadda wednesday is umar mansoor, the de facto operational head of ttp in kp.
Journalist hasan abdullah tells dawn.Com mansoor is the faction's commander particularly in charsadda, darra adam khel, noshera and surrounding areas. "he had been very close to hakimullah mehsud's inner circle and become additionally close to umar khalid khorasani at one time," says abdullah.
He adds whilst he's said to have shifted to afghanistan after pakistan's army operation in 2014, mansoor is reported to have crossed into pakistan at numerous points.
A reuters profile titled 'pakistan's maximum hated guy: volleyball participant, child killer' described mansoor as a 37-yr-vintage father of 3 and volleyball fanatic who is nicknamed "slim".
His real call is umar mansoor and is likewise claimed by means of ttp to be the mastermind of 2014's massacre of 132 children and nine body of workers at a navy-run college in peshawar - the deadliest militant attack in pakistan's history.
A video published on a taliban wesbite after the army public faculty attack confirmed a person with a chest-period beard, who sought to justify the dec. Sixteen assault. The caption identified him as umar mansoor.
The taliban stated the aps assault, wherein gunmen wearing suicide-bomb vests carried out children, became retaliation for a army offensive finished by way of the pakistani army.
Six pakistani taliban interviewed by means of reuters confirmed the mastermind changed into mansoor. 4 of them said he is near mullah fazlullah, the embattled chief of the ttp who ordered assassins to kill schoolgirl activist malala yousafzai.
Mansoor were given a high college schooling within the capital, islamabad, taliban participants said, and later studied in a madrassah.
Mansoor has two brothers and spent a while operating within the town of karachi as a labourer before joining the taliban soon after it became formed, in overdue 2007, stated one commander.
His nickname is "naray," a phrase inside the pashto language which means "narrow", and he's the father of two daughters and a son, stated some other commanders.
The taliban video describes him because the "amir", or leader, of peshawar and close by darra adam khel. Mansoor deeply opposes talks with the government, the commanders said.
"he became very strict from the begin when he joined," a commander stated. "he left many commanders at the back of in the event that they had a tender corner (in their heart) for the government."
Journalist hasan abdullah tells dawn.Com mansoor is the faction's commander particularly in charsadda, darra adam khel, noshera and surrounding areas. "he had been very close to hakimullah mehsud's inner circle and become additionally close to umar khalid khorasani at one time," says abdullah.
He adds whilst he's said to have shifted to afghanistan after pakistan's army operation in 2014, mansoor is reported to have crossed into pakistan at numerous points.
A reuters profile titled 'pakistan's maximum hated guy: volleyball participant, child killer' described mansoor as a 37-yr-vintage father of 3 and volleyball fanatic who is nicknamed "slim".
His real call is umar mansoor and is likewise claimed by means of ttp to be the mastermind of 2014's massacre of 132 children and nine body of workers at a navy-run college in peshawar - the deadliest militant attack in pakistan's history.
A video published on a taliban wesbite after the army public faculty attack confirmed a person with a chest-period beard, who sought to justify the dec. Sixteen assault. The caption identified him as umar mansoor.
The taliban stated the aps assault, wherein gunmen wearing suicide-bomb vests carried out children, became retaliation for a army offensive finished by way of the pakistani army.
Six pakistani taliban interviewed by means of reuters confirmed the mastermind changed into mansoor. 4 of them said he is near mullah fazlullah, the embattled chief of the ttp who ordered assassins to kill schoolgirl activist malala yousafzai.
Mansoor were given a high college schooling within the capital, islamabad, taliban participants said, and later studied in a madrassah.
Mansoor has two brothers and spent a while operating within the town of karachi as a labourer before joining the taliban soon after it became formed, in overdue 2007, stated one commander.
His nickname is "naray," a phrase inside the pashto language which means "narrow", and he's the father of two daughters and a son, stated some other commanders.
The taliban video describes him because the "amir", or leader, of peshawar and close by darra adam khel. Mansoor deeply opposes talks with the government, the commanders said.
"he became very strict from the begin when he joined," a commander stated. "he left many commanders at the back of in the event that they had a tender corner (in their heart) for the government."
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