Six suspected Taliban terrorists held

Pakistani intelligence agencies have picked up six suspected Tehrik-i-Taliban terrorists, including a top commander, after a raid on the outskirts of the city.

The intelligence officials raided an apartment on the outskirts of the city in the aftermath of the US drone strike in which Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour and another militant were killed in the restive Baluchistan province, police sources said.

According to the sources the suspected TTP activists picked up includeJabbar, Yousuf and Bashir.

Mansour, believed to be in his 50s, was killed when a US drone fired on his vehicle in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan. He had emerged as the successor to Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, whose 2013 death was only revealed last summer.