London, August 09: It was probably his desire to spend a night with his second wife that proved fatal for Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone attack at his father-in-law’s house, a media report said here today.
35-year-old Mehsud had taken the risk of spending the night with his second wife around 1 am last Wednesday, ‘The Sunday Times’ reported.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan commander had four daughters from his first wife, but, in the tribal lands of Waziristan, it is only the birth of a boy that is greeted by rifle fire and jubilation, it said.
Last November, Mehsud took a second wife, the daughter of an influential local cleric, and was spending the night with her at her father’s house in the village of Zangarha when the missiles hit, the paper said.
–PTI