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Pakistan Taliban promote number two to replace leader slain by drone

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - The Pakistani Taliban voted on Saturday to promote their number two commander, Khan Said, also known as Sajna, to replace leader Hakimullah Mehsud who was killed in a strike by a US drone, militant commanders and security sources said.
Said is believed to have masterminded an attack on a jail in northwest Pakistan that freed nearly 400 prisoners in 2012 and an attack on a Pakistani air force base in the same year.
Mehsud was killed by a US drone in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghan border, on Friday.