Photo of Mangal Bagh, the leader of militant outfit Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) based in Khyber tribal agency s Bara region. AFP/File
KHYBER: Chief of one of Khyber district’s most dreaded and banned organisations, Lashkar-i-Islam (LI), Mangal Bagh was killed in a mine explosion in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on Thursday.
Confirming the news of the militant leader’s death, Nangarhar’s Governor Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhel wrote on his Twitter account: “Mangal Bagh, also known as Mangal Bagh Afridi, the leader of Lashkar-i-Islam, a militant organisation operating in (erstwhile) Khyber Agency, has been killed in a roadside explosion in Achin district along with three others.”
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Key Pakistani Militant Leader Killed in Afghanistan: Official
Mangal Bagh, also known as Mangal Bagh Afridi, the leader of Lashkar-e-Islam, a militant organization operating in Khyber Agency, was killed in a roadside mine explosion in Achin district of the province along with three others, the governor of Nangarhar Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhil said on Thursday.
This is the third time that the news of death of the militant commander surfaces on media.
Afghan security agencies also confirmed the death of Mangal Bagh and said that the “reclusive militant commander” was killed while trying to plant a roadside bomb.
Mangal established his group Lashkar-e-Islam in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in 2014.
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After misleading media and the public with false news about his death multiple times, the leader of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI) militant group has now been confirmed dead by multiple sources in the Afghan and Pakistani governments and the Taliban.
Bagh, who was also known as Haji Mangal Bagh, had been hiding across the border in eastern Afghanistan since 2014, the year Pakistan launched a massive anti-Taliban operation, Zarb-e-Azb, in its North Waziristan tribal district.
The operation was gradually extended to other tribal districts, dislodging several other militant outfits such as the LeI from their strongholds along with shattering the command and control structure of the once dreaded Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which was the prime target of the operation.
Pakistani militant commander Mangal Bagh killed in Afghanistan: report
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Mangal Bagh, the leader of Lashkar-e-Islami, has been killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistanâs Nangarhar province, an Afghan media report said Thursday.
Nangarhar Governor Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhel confirmed the death of the Pakistani militant commander along with three others, Tolo News reported.
The report said he died in a roadside explosion in Nangarharâs Achin district. Mangal is blamed for role in series of terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Governor Amarkhel was quoted as saying.
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