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Q: Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani military on Sunday was looking into a local report that the region's Taliban leader had died, officials said. 
  
 State broadcaster PTV reported that Hakimullah Mehsud, the Taliban commander in Pakistan, was wounded in a drone attack this month, and that he died and was buried last week. PTV cited local sources and its correspondent in North Waziristan. 
  
 A Taliban source denied the report to CNN, saying that Mehsud has simply gone "underground" after being targeted by drone attacks. 
  
 The source, who requested anonymity because he is not an authorized spokesperson for the Taliban, said Mehsud is alive and well and will release a taped recording to prove as much. 
  
 Military spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas told CNN that "we cannot yet confirm" Mehsud's death. 
  
 Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik told CNN on Sunday that officials have received reports of the Taliban leader's death, but also could not immediately verify it. 
  
 Mehsud has been the target of suspected U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan. The U.S. military routinely offers no comment on reported attacks by the pilotless aircraft. 
  
 The Taliban leader's status came into question following two drone attacks aimed at him this month. 
  
 U.S. counterterrorism officials contacted by CNN Sunday could not confirm whether Mehsud is dead or injured. 
  
 CNN's Kiran Khalid and Pam Benson contributed to this report. ||||| Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan - The Pakistani army Sunday was investigating reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mahsud may have been killed in a drone strike last month. If confirmed, the militant's death could deal insurgents a severe setback in their battle against the government.Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said Mahsud, 28, was wounded Jan. 17 in a U.S. airstrike that targeted two cars in North Waziristan, a largely Taliban-controlled tribal region along the border with Afghanistan.Abbas said intelligence agents are investigating a report on state television that Mahsud was killed in the airstrike and buried four days ago in the tribal district of Orakzai. The channel attributed its report to "official sources."Abbas said he did not know the extent of Mahsud's injuries. The Associated Press reported that he had suffered wounds to his abdomen and legs.A U.S. intelligence official said Sunday that "the report [of Mahsud's death] cannot be confirmed at this point." Reuters news service quoted an unnamed spokesman of the Pakistani Taliban movement as declaring the report "a total lie."If confirmed, Mahsud's death would force the Taliban to find a new leader just five months after a U.S. drone strike killed its chief, Baitullah Mahsud, accused by Pakistani authorities of being the mastermind of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in December 2007.However, it probably would not deal a fatal blow to the Taliban. After Baitullah Mahsud's death, Hakimullah Mahsud, his deputy, took the reins of the militant group and unleashed a campaign of suicide bombings and commando-style raids on cities late last year.That campaign was largely a response to the Pakistani government's decision to launch an all-out offensive in insurgent-held South Waziristan to root out Taliban and Al Qaeda militants from that district. Troops have since regained control of almost all of South Waziristan, but most of the Taliban's leaders and rank-and-file fighters were able to flee to neighboring tribal areas.The Jan. 17 drone strike targeting Hakimullah Mahsud was part of a wave of attacks carried out by the United States after the Dec. 30 suicide bombing by a Jordanian at a U.S. base in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA workers. Mahsud was also the apparent target of a drone strike on the border of North and South Waziristan on Jan. 14.A video released after the attack on the base showed the Jordanian bomber sitting next to Mahsud. The bomber, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal Balawi, said the attack he was planning would avenge Baitullah Mahsud.Since the attack on the U.S. base, at least a dozen drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan have killed at least 100 people.Drones armed with Hellfire missiles have become the Obama administration's primary weapon for eliminating suspected Al Qaeda leaders and Taliban militants who use the tribal areas as a base between treks into Afghanistan to attack U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led troops. Last year, American forces carried out 51 drone strikes in northwestern Pakistan, compared with 27 in 2008.Islamabad has tacitly allowed the U.S. drone campaign against militants to continue, while publicly condemning the attacks.Greg Miller of the Washington bureau contributed to this report. |||||
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The Pakistani army is investigating reports that the leader of the Taliban in the country has died after being injured in an American military drone strike. Hakimullah Mehsud, 28, had been at the helm of the Pakistani Taliban for 5 months, having taken over after the death—also in a drone strike—of Baitullah Mehsud, reports the Los Angeles Times. But a source within the Taliban says Hakimullah Mehsud is alive and has gone "underground" to dodge a recent campaign of drone attacks, CNN reports.