US strike 'kills' key Pakistan militant Ilyas Kashmiri
4 June 2011 Last updated at 09:33 GMT
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A top Pakistani militant leader has been killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan, reports say.
They said he and his men had only recently arrived in the area. His death has not been confirmed by officials.
Ilyas Kashmiri is head of the Harkatul Jihad al-Islami, an extremist group with close links to al-Qaeda. He is a high-profile figure, wanted by the US.
The BBC's Orla Guerin in Pakistan says he is so close to the al-Qaeda network that his name had been mentioned as a possible successor to Osama Bin Laden.
He is widely believed to have been the mastermind behind an audacious attack on the Mehran naval airbase in Karachi last month, in which six well-organised militants managed to hold off Pakistan's equivalent of the US Navy Seals for 15 hours.
The US also blames him for organising multiple attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
(source:bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13653324?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)
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