Who is he and what are his beliefs? Ruthless campaigner with his penchant for media publicity, Hakimullah is around 27 years of age and considered as one of the closest lieutenants of the killed Taliban commander, Baitullah Mehsud. Hakimullah was responsible for TTP operations in Khyber and Orakzai agencies where until recently he spent most of his time. He is also known for his ruthless anti-Shia campaign in Kurram agency, where the presence of TTP zealots has been wreaking havoc on the Shia minority Pashtuns. Many media personnel met him in Orakzai agency in the last week of November 2008 and saw a deputy emerging for Baitullah Mehsud. It was in this meeting when he said that Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was in his hit-list along with many other government officials for their “pro-American” policies.

According to reports, Hakimullah's look-alike brother was summoned from Afghanistan, while the decision to appoint their new chief was being taken.
Hakimullah, over six feet tall, radiates a certain charisma, and has also threatened on occasion to cut off supplies to American forces in Afghanistan if U.S. drone attacks continued. His people also displayed one of the two American Humvee military vehicles they had hijacked in Khyber Agency on November 10, 2008. He also accused members of the central and provincial governments of “working to break up Pakistan in collaboration with the US.” That is why Hakimullah’s men not only unleashed a string of vicious attacks on the US-NATO military cargo vehicles destined for Afghanistan, particularly between November 2007 and March 2009, but also conducted several suicide attacks across Pakistan. Hakimullah owned up many of these attacks, which involved TTP-trained bombers.
He studied in a madrassa for some years but didn’t graduate as a mullah but rose to the level of becoming a Taliban commander and led nearly 4,000 Taliban fighters in Orakzai, Kurram and Khyber agencies. Hakimullah’s closest contender was Waliur Rahman, cousin of Baitullah and equally ruthless and now is commanding Taliban fighters in South Waziristan. Continue reading »



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