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Pakistani security forces on Monday killed a top Taliban commander and captured four other militants in an operation in Balochistan province bordering Afghanistan.
Mullah Mansoor Dadullah, brother of slain Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah, was killed in Qila Saifullah district in Balochistan province, TV channels said quoting official sources.
Four other Taliban commanders were captured, they said. Dadullah had succeeded Mullah Dadullah, who was killed in an Afghan and NATO operation in southern Afghanistan in May last year.
There were reports last month that Mansoor Dadullah has been thrown out of the Taliban by its supreme commander Mullah Omar, but a spokesman for Dadullah denied the reports.
A senior army official said Dadullah died of his wounds while being flown to a hospital.
Dadullah's death comes amid growing Western pressure on Pakistan to crack down on Islamic militants. He rose in the militia's ranks as an important commander in southern Afghanistan after his brother was killed.
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