Pakistan's Taliban leader survived U.S. drone missile

Security sources reverse their earlier contention that Hakimullah Mahsud was killed in the January attack. The news is a blow to efforts to uproot the militants from tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. Security sources confirmed Thursday that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mahsud is alive, reversing their assertions earlier this year that he had been killed in a U.S. drone missile strike.

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