Islamabad, July 16(ANI): Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami (HuJI) commander Ilyas Kashmiri, one of the five most wanted terrorist leaders by the US, is still alive, sources have claimed.
HuJI, a terrorist group affiliated to Al-Qaeda, had last month said that Kashmiri was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of South Waziristan.
Three other militants were badly injured in the attack.
However, the sources said that Kashmiri is still active in the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Dawn reports.
Anti-terrorism experts have long described Kashmiri as one of Al-Qaeda's main operational commanders.
Kashmiri was held responsible for a number of attacks in Pakistan, including the May 22 siege on the Navy's air base in Karachi and in October 2009 on the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi.
HuJI was believed by the US to be behind the March 2006 suicide bombing of the US consulate in Karachi, which killed four people and wounded 48.
Kashmiri was at one point a member of the Pakistani military, serving as a commando in a Special Services Group that was once tasked with training Afghan mujahideen to fight the Soviets.
He was later reassigned to train Kashmiri fighters against the Indians, but broke from the Pakistani Army and joined HuJI. (ANI)
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