The TTP claimed responsibility for the attack in a Telegram message shared with a Reuters journalist and denied having suffered any losses in the retaliatory fire.
Little is still known about Akhundzada's day-to-day role, with his public profile largely limited to the release of annual messages during Islamic holidays.
ISKP has been recruiting Indians for the past several years and has maintained regular contact with its operatives in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Africa, through an Instagram channel named ‘Chronicle Foundation’.
The strikes were carried out on Al-Anad airbase, some 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Yemen's second city Aden in the south of the conflict-riven country.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) special flights have airlifted fresh batch of 12 million doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccines from Beijing Capital International Airport to Islamabad.
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Erdogan on Friday said Turkey had held its first talks with the Taliban in Kabul, adding that Ankara was still assessing the Islamist group's offer for Turkey to run the airport's logistics.
Pakistani support for the Taliban is a double-edged sword. The question is whose worldview will be exported. Will the Taliban borrow Pakistan and China's governance framework, or will they export their own ideology? Or will it embolden jihadi terrorists at home?