WORLD BRIEFING / PAKISTAN
Times Wire Reports
A Taliban faction leader who criticized the militant group’s Pakistani head has been shot dead, reportedly by one of his own guards.
Dr. Mahmood Khan Bitani said he pronounced Qari Zainuddin dead on arrival today at a hospital in the northwest with gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
An aide to the militant leader said a guard barged into a room at Zainuddin’s compound after morning prayers and opened fire.
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