Islamabad: Nasiruddin Haqqani, senior leader of the dreaded Haqqani terror network who was shot dead here, had been living in areas near the Pakistani capital for years, media reports today said.
Quoting a senior member of the Haqqani network, The News daily reported that “Nasiruddin was living in Rawalpindi for the past many years along with other members of the family.” Nasiruddin, who was in his early 30s, was the group's financier and the son of its founder Jalaluddin Haqqani.
He was killed by two gunmen riding a motorcycle while returning home from a mosque in a car in Barakahu late on Sunday night.
The report said, Naseeruddin's bullet-riddled body was initially shifted to his Rawalpindi home and then transported for burial to Danday Darpakhel, a village located three kilometres northwest of North Waziristan's headquarters in Miranshah, where some family members of Jalaluddin Haqqani have been living since 1980.
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