Sheikh Maqbool

Orakzai The Orakzai are a Pashtun tribe native to the Orakzai Agency and parts of Kurram Agency located in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They speak the language Pashto. Location The Orakzai belong to the Tirah valley located in FATA or ...

, known as Shahidullah Shahid and later as Abu Umar Maqbool al Khurasani, was a Pakistani Islamic militant who served in senior roles in both the

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan The Pakistani Taliban (), formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (Urdu/ ps, , lit=Student Movement of Pakistan, TTP), is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed militant groups operating along the Afghan–Pakistani bo ...

and in the Islamic State's

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and

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History

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan

Shahid served as a top spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban since the group was formed in 2006.

Islamic State

On 21 October 2014 he was sacked by the Pakistani Taliban for his pledge of allegiance to

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ( ar, أبو بكر البغدادي, ʾAbū Bakr al-Baḡdādī; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali Muhammad al-Badri al-Samarrai ( ar, إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي محمد البدري السامرائي, ʾIb ...

and the Islamic State, which he had made a week prior.

Death

On 9 July 2015, he was killed in an American airstrike in Dih Bala District, Nangarhar Province,

. Gul Zaman, a militant commander from Pakistan’s Orakzai tribal region, was also killed in the strike.

References

{{Authority control Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan members 2015 deaths Year of birth missing Pashtun people Pakistani Islamists Salafi jihadists Deaths by United States drone strikes in Pakistan