A US drone killed the Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud. The man was responsible for the deaths of US soldiers in Afghanistan, but also for attacks in Pakistan. Nevertheless, the government in Islamabad is named after its end now in custody.

Ironically, today would have a three-member delegation of the Pakistan government to start talks on a possible peace with the Taliban. “Now we can bend,” said a sullen official in the Interior Ministry in Islamabad. The mood is bad, amazingly bad, that one of the most dangerous terrorists in the country, the Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed on Friday by a US drone.

“This attack is an attempt to sabotage Pakistan peace talks with the Taliban,” complains Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar in front of television cameras.

The drone fired four missiles on Friday night in North Waziristan from , above the village of Dandi Darpakhel . To the next town , Miranshah , there are only a few kilometers. The region in Pakistan’s tribal areas near the Afghan border considered a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban. According to a Pakistani intelligence man met two rockets a house, a car two more , where the Taliban leader was on my way with several men .

Hakimullah Mehsud , long hair, pockmarked skin that last bit chubby , estimated in her early thirties , was considered one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world. He is said to have arranged hundreds of attacks in Pakistan against soldiers , police officers, often simply against the people , because in his view , Pakistan was complicit as a partner of the U.S. in the war against the Taliban. More than previously allowed the Taliban kidnap security forces under his control , execute and spread the execution videos.

Hakimullah Mehsud Dead:Bounty of five million US dollars

Mehsud also said to have been responsible for a suicide attack on a CIA station in Afghanistan for the failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square and for many attacks on NATO troops in Afghanistan. So he stood high on the wanted list of the United States, which had placed a bounty in the amount of five million dollars to him.

Mehsud was after an internal power struggle in the summer of 2009 at the head of the loose alliance between the Pakistani Taliban, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), moved, after his predecessor and mentor, Baitullah Mehsud, was also killed by a US drone . Hakimullah Mehsud was known for his irascible, violent kind He was regarded as emotional, but also as charismatic.

Several times he narrowly escaped drone attacks , he once said to have been seriously injured . Reports that he was dead, but always proved wrong. This time, confirmed intelligence and military personnel and members of the TTP independently , Mehsud was dead too, U.S. intelligence sources said they had confirmation Mehsud was dead on Saturday reported the newspaper ” Express Tribune ” , referring to unnamed sources , Mehsud had already been buried in the night on Saturday . Originally, his funeral was scheduled for this afternoon .

For the US, the news of Mehsud’s death is a testament to the success of their drone war in the Afghan- Pakistani border region . In recent months, human rights organizations had criticized from the US, Europe and Pakistan Washington. They accused the government of US President Barack Obama to lead an illegal war and disproportionate to take into account many civilian casualties .

The Americans do the dirty work

Reliable figures on how many people are killed by drones and who it belongs to the extremists, there is not. The information in studies vary widely. The affected areas are not to travel for independent observers, as they are considered too dangerous. The Pakistani government has little control over these tribal areas, for a trip there you need a special permit, the authorities rarely.

Officially, the Pakistani government criticized the drone strikes. Even on Friday night, as already spread that Mehsud, Pakistan’s enemy number one, had been hit, they spread a message in which they condemned the attack. “These attacks are a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” it states. Therefore, the air strikes would stop.

Secretly, the government tolerated the attacks but, after all, do the dirty work for the United States. Pakistan will release the terrorists responsible for the attacks in the country without having to fight themselves.

In recent months, however, has apparently actually the desire of political leaders enforced, like the drone attacks stop. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif personally wore this desire in Washington before, when he recently visited Obama.

 It threatens a bloody November

Because Pakistan is planning for the period after 2014, since NATO is no longer in Afghanistan and its neighbor probably a power struggle breaks out and brings chaos. With the help of the Taliban is hoped that an end to terrorism in the region. This is based on the conviction that it was necessary to include the extremists because they have neither Afghanistan nor Pakistan can defeat.

Pakistan wants a halt to the drone war and peace talks with the Taliban, even though they call for the introduction of Islam for their own extremist interpretation across the country. A similar project in 2009 failed in the Swat Valley of northern Pakistan, the Taliban because there always new demands – in the end they had to sell the military.

Just three days ago Mehsud had called and indicated that the Taliban are ready for talks with the government itself, in an interview a halt to drone attacks. Whether his successor Said Khan Sajna by an assembly of 60 Taliban commanders still certain on Saturday, will continue this course is uncertain. 17 participants should have voted against him, Pakistani newspapers report. He was previously the head of the Taliban in the South Waziristan region.

The attack on Mehsud anyway now see how many Interior Minister Nisar: as an attempt of the Americans to sabotage the negotiations. Now fear the people of Pakistan that the Taliban will take revenge for the death of their chief. The Interior Ministry and the army it is, one expects a bloody November.

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