Gunmen Kill Senior Haqqani Leader in Pakistan

A senior leader and key financier of the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network, one of the biggest threats to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, has been shot dead on the outskirts of Pakistan's capital.Taliban sources and intelligence officials say gunmen killed Nasiruddin Haqqani late Sunday in a residential area of Islamabad and his body was taken to the North Waziristan tribal region to be buried.The killing comes just more than a week after a U.S. drone strike killed Pakistani Taliban chief...

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