Hakimullah Mehsud

Hakimullah-Mehsud حکیم اللہ محسود
Hakimullah Mehsud, in Pakistan's Orakzai Agency near the Afghanistan border on Nov. 26, 2008.
Born	1979 Bannu, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Died	1 November 2013 (aged 33–34) Dande Darpa Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Allegiance	Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan
Years of service	2000s–2013
Battles/wars	War in North-West Pakistan
Relations	Qari Hussain (cousin, deceased)

Hakimullah Mehsud (Pashto/Urdu: حکیم اللہ محسود‎‎; c. 1979 − 1 November 2013), born Jamshed Mehsud (جمشید محسود‎) and also known as Zulfiqar Mehsud (ذو الفقار محسود), was the emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). He was deputy to commander Baitullah Mehsud and one of the leaders of the militant group Fedayeen al-Islam prior to the elder Mehsud's death in a CIA drone missile strike.

He had been the TTP's commander in the Khyber, Kurram and Orakzai agencies of Pakistan. He was described as being born about 1979 and a cousin of Qari Hussain. He was known to be a young and aggressive field commander, who previously served as a driver and was very close to Baitullah Mehsud. Hakimullah Mehsud maintained ties to al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban and various Pakistani jihadist groups, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and Jaish-e-Mohammed. Reports initially indicated he was fatally wounded on 14 January 2010 by a US drone attack although two videos released by the TTP in 2010 and 2011 proved that he survived the attack. Mehsud was reported by Pakistani intelligence to have been killed by US drone strike on 12 January 2012. However, the Pakistani Taliban denied the claim. It was later confirmed by the group that he was killed in a drone strike on 1 November 2013.