Noor Wali Mehsud, the leader of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has emerged at the centre of a fresh and deadly round of violence between Pakistan and Afghanistan after a Pakistani airstrike in Kabul on October 9 targeted an armoured vehicle believed to be carrying him. The strike, followed by several days of cross-border clashes before an uneasy ceasefire, has deepened an already fraught security standoff between Islamabad and the Afghan Taliban authorities.
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