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Nek Muhammad Wazir


Nek Muhammad Wazir (Pashto: نیک محمد وزیر‎, also Nek Mohammed; 1975 – June 18, 2004(2004-06-18)) was a prominent Pakistani mujahideen or jihadi leader. He was killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan, FATA, Pakistan in 2004. This was the first CIA drone strike inside Pakistan.

Nek Muhammad belonged to the Yargul Khai subclan of the Ahmadzai Pashtun tribe. According to Pakistan's Dawn News, his father:

"...had inherited a maliki which entitled him to token government allowances as well as a vote in the restricted franchise system and a khasadari, a political policeman's job which comes under a tribal system of distribution called nikat."

Nek's father, Nawaz Khan, was a member of the tribal elite and owned property in the village of Kalosha, South Waziristan, close to the Afghanistan border: Nek Muhammad was his second child. Muhammad was expelled from one madrassa for poor discipline. He received his early education at an Islamic school run by Jamiat-i-Ulema-i-Islam leader Maulana Noor Mohammed.

Nek studied for five years at the Jamia Darul Uloom Waziristan. One of his teachers stated that he was a strong-willed student:

"Nek never had an intellectual mind but some other traits of his personality became evident during his stay at the Darul Uloom. He showed himself to be a hard-headed boy, endowed with an impenetrable soul and an obstinate determination to carry out his will no matter how mindless it might be."


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