Is Pakistan Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mehsud Alive?

Pakistani Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud speaks to the press in 2008. Mehsud was presumed dead in a US drone strike in January but is now thought to be alive. Photograph: A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images

Pakistan Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mehsud Is Alive, Says Spy Agency -- The Guardian

Exclusive: Setback for CIA after Pakistan intelligence official admits drone attack failed to kill the Pakistan Taliban commander

The Taliban leader in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, survived an American drone strike in January and is alive and well, a senior official with Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency told the Guardian today.

Mehsud was reported to have died in a CIA drone strike in South Waziristan in January but, although Pakistan's interior minister claimed he had been killed, the death was never confirmed by either US or Pakistani intelligence.

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Update: Hakeemullah Mehsud 'is alive': ISI official -- Long War Journal

My Comment: I am sleptical of this report. Hakimullah Mehsud loved the spot light, and if he had survived the attack in January, we would have certainly heard from him by then.