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Peshawar school attack mastermind killed in US drone strike

Umar Mansour, alias Khalifa Mansour, alias Umar Naray, from the TTP, was the mastermind.

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The mastermind of Peshawar has been killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan. The attack claimed the lives of 150 people mostly school children, at a military-run school in Peshawar. 

According to Dawn, Umar Mansour, alias Khalifa Mansour, alias Umar Naray, the mastermind, was killed along with another militant leader Qari Saifullah. The attack took place in Bandar area of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar area. However, Saifullah's death is yet to be confirmed.  Both belong to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)'s Tariq Geedar group. 

Mansour had fled to Afghanistan after a military-operation Khyber tribal region. He was also responsible for Bacha Khan University in January where 18 students died and the September 15 attack on Pakistan Air Force base in Peshawar. 

Earlier reports also said that another key planner, a senior Taliban commander, in the Peshawar school massacre, was also killed by the security forces in Pakistan's troubled Khyber Agency. He had facilitated the seven attackers who had attacked the Army

In the Peshawar school attack, eight terrorists were convicted for militancy, including seven involved in the Peshawar school attack last December. Out of the seven convicted in the Peshawar school massacre case, six were given death sentence while one was handed down imprisonment for life. Of the seven convicted, six belonged to the Toheedwal Jihad Group (TWJ) while one was an active member of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

Apart from the seven militants, another terrorist, who was was an active member of Jaish-e-Muhammad, was awarded the death sentence for involvement in an attack on soldiers of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, at Safoora Chowk, Karachi, in 2011. "Chief of Army Staff today confirms death sentence of seven hardcore terrorists involved in Army Public School Peshawar and Safoora Chowrangi Karachi incidents," Bajwa said.

All eight terrorists were tried by military courts established under the Pakistan Army (Amendment) Act, 2015 and set up in the aftermath of the Peshawar attack. 

With agency inputs.

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