SAA event in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, South Waziristan District area, Pakistan on Thu 24th March 2022

Unknown gunmen killed a ‘commander’ in Azam Warsak area of South Waziristan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on March 24, reports Dawn. The witnesses said that attackers driving a non-custom paid car opened fire on Mr Bakhan in front of a shop in Azam Warsak, some 15 kilometres from Wana, the district headquarters of South Waziristan. He died instantly. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Locals said that ‘commander’ Bakhan had affiliation with the ‘good Taliban’ that had supported the Government in operations against local and foreign militants in South Waziristan. Presently, they said, he had formed his own faction code-named 24 Group comprising youth of the area.