Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud (Pashto/Urdu: نور ولی محسود; born 26 June 1978), also known as Abu Mansoor Asim (ابو منصور عاصم), is a Pakistani Islamic scholar, cleric and jurist who is the 4th emir of the Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP).[3][4][5][1] On 22 June 2018, Mehsud was appointed as the emir of TTP after the assassination of former emir Mullah Fazlullah in a US drone strike in Kunar, Afghanistan.[1][2]
Mehsud took power over the TTP at its weakest point since its inception, as the TTP no longer held territory in Pakistan and had been plagued by internal divisions.[6] Despite this, the TTP, since Mehsud's appointment appears to have been revitalized and has "grown deadlier."[7][8] Mehsud has essentially steered the TTP in a new direction, sparing civilians and ordering assaults only on security and law enforcement personnel, in an attempt to rehabilitate the group's image and distance them from the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (Daesh–Khorasan) militant group's extremism.[9]
The US classified Mehsud as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist on 10 September 2019.[10] In July 2020, Mehsud was included on the ISIL and Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee
list by the United Nations.[11]
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