
Sheharyar Mehsud who is the leader of the banned terrorist organisation Tehreek-e-Taliban has reportedly died in a bomb blast inAfghanistan.
Mehsud died after a remote control bomb went offin Kunar province.According to sources, he was taking a walk in Marwara area of the province.
This is the third high profile assassination of Afghanistan-based terrorists who are wanted in Pakistan for multiple offences.
Last week, a key leader of Afghanistan Taliban called Sheikh Khalid Haqqani was killed in clashes with security forces in Afghanistan.
Taliban's top ranking commander Haqqani was killed in January.
He had joined the terror group after the red mosque operation in 2007 when Pakistan's military had stormed the compound to dislodge armed terrorists holed up inside for about a week.
Earlier, Qari Hossein was alsoassassinated undermysterious circumstances in Kabul.
Both Islamabad and Kabul have long accused each other of allowing militants to shelter in the border regions and launch bloody attacks that threaten regional stability.