A senior Pakistani Taliban commander has been shot dead in a militant stronghold near the Afghan border, security sources and relatives say.
Asmatullah Shaheen was ambushed as he drove through a village near Miranshah in North Waziristan, reports said. Three aides in the vehicle also died.
It is unclear who killed them. There has been no word from the militants.
Shaheen was briefly the TTP (Pakistani Taliban) interim leader after its chief Hakimullah Mehsud was killed last year.
Mehsud died in a US drone strike in November and was later replaced by a new leader, Mullah Fazlullah, BBC informs.
