Shahidullah Shahid

Shahidullah Shahid
Born	Sheikh Maqbool Orakzai Pakistan
Died	Afghanistan
Nationality	Pakistani
Other names	Abu Umar Maqbool al Khurasani

Sheikh Maqbool Orakzai,^[1] known as Shahidullah Shahid and later as Abu Umar Maqbool al Khurasani,^[2] was a Pakistani Islamic militant who served in senior roles in both the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and in the Islamic State's province in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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 and the Islamic State, which he had made a week prior.^[3][4]

Death[]

On 9 July 2015, he was killed in an American airstrike in Dih Bala District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Gul Zaman, a militant commander from Pakistan’s Orakzai tribal region, was also killed in the strike.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

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