Pakistan prime minister moves to end tensions with the army

There were reports in Pakistan on Sunday that intelligence officials
intercepted militant radio communications indicating the Pakistani Taliban’s
leader may have been killed in a recent US drone strike in northwest
Pakistan.

The officials said they overheard Taliban militants in around a half a dozen
intercepts discussing whether their chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed on
Jan 12 in the North Waziristan tribal area.

Pakistani Taliban spokesman Asimullah Mehsud denied the group’s leader was
killed and said he was not in the area where the drone strike occurred.
Mehsud has been reported killed several times in the past, most notably in
early 2010.

The report coincided with sectarian violence – a bomb blast in the central
Pakistani town of Khanpur killed 18 people in a Shiite religious procession.

Hundreds of Pakistani Shiites had gathered in Khanpur for a traditional
procession to mark the end of 40 days of mourning following the anniversary
of the death of Imam Hussein, a revered seventh-century figure.

The explosion went off as the mourners came out of a mosque, said District
Police Chief Sohail Chatta. The bomb appeared to have been planted ahead of
time in the path of the procession, he said.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

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