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 province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
in
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
and
Pakistan
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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,
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
. Gul Zaman, a militant commander from Pakistan’s Orakzai tribal region, was also killed in the strike.
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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