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Top Pakistani Taliban commander, Omar Khalid Khorasani, has been wounded in a joint operation by the Afghan and NATO forces on the Afghan side of the border, a spokesman for Khorasani said on Sunday.
Khorasani is the supreme commander of the splinter group Tehrik- e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ul-Ahrar that is blamed for several deadly attacks in Pakistan.
"Omar Khalid Khorasani was injured in a joint operation by the Afghan and NATO forces in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, " spokesman for the group Ehsanullah Ehsan told the media.
"Khorasani has now been shifted to a safe place and he is improving," Ehsan was quoted as saying.
The spokesman also confirmed that nine fighters of the group were also killed in the attack few days ago.
"The clashes continued for two days," he said.
The TTP Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack at the border town of Wahga in November which killed 60 people and injured many others. The suicide attack was carried out among the people who were watching the traditional lowering of Pakistani national flag along the border with India.
Khorasani, once the senior commander of the TTP, was expelled last year after he and some senior commanders formed their own group.
Pakistani officials said several Pakistani Taliban leaders have crossed the border into Afghanistan and now operate from there.
Afghan and Pakistani officials have not commented on the incident.
Security forces of the both countries have been coordinating operations on their side of the border.
Sources said recent raids along the border in Afghanistan and the U.S. drone strikes there had badly hit the hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban.
Pakistani security officials believed the TTP chief, Mauvi Fazalullah, is also hiding in the border region of Afghanistan.
