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Since the assassination of its former chief Hakimullah Mehsud in US Drone attack in November last year, the group has splintered.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><strong>PakistanToday<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid, along with 24 other militants, were killed in a US drone strike on Thursday, according to Afghan news\u00a0 agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid killed in US drone strike - 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