The compound targeted during the drone strike was being used as a base by TTP terrorists. PHOTO: AFP/FILEA top leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) escaped unhurt from a suspected drone strike on a safe house in eastern Afghanistan, the group said on Friday. The strike on Thursday evening came a week after a ceasefire between the TTP and the government collapsed. Bilal Karimi, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban, told AFP from Kabul that the strike was an explosive fired from the ground. Pakistan is now trying to quell a TTP comeback after the victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Source: The Express Tribune December 17, 2021 23:20 UTC