Jamaat-ul-Ahrar chief Khorasani, nine associates killed by US drone strike

The chief of the militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Umar Khalid Khorasani, and nine of his associates have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan's Paktia province.

The Dawn quoted a spokesman of the group, Asad Mansoor, as saying on 20 October that "Chief of our Jamaat-ul-Ahrar Umar Khalid Khorasani, who



sustained serious injuries in a recent U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan's Paktia province, succumbed to his injuries Wednesday evening."

The JuA spokesman was reportedly speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location, a foreign news agency said.

Mansoor said the JuA consultative council will be convened soon to appoint a new chief.