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‘Hakimullah’s likely successor also killed’ (PTI, 3 February 2010)

Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud’s close aide Qari Hussain, the top trainer of suicide bombers and one of his potential successors, was killed in the same US drone attack that fatally injured him, sources said.