Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan: The leader of Pakistani militant group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, who planned some of the deadliest suicide bomings in Pakistan in the last year, died on Thursday after being wounded in a US drone strike in Afgahnistan, a spokesman said.

‘Our leader, Omar Khalid Khorasani, was wounded in one of the recent drone strikes in Afghanistan. He was wounded badly, and today he was martyred,’ Asad Mansoor, a Jamaat-ul-Ahrar spokesman, told Reuters by telephone.

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar is a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban and has in the past also supported Middle East-based Islamic State.