<p>The drones hit a militant compound in Jungle Khel area near Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan Agency, killing four militants including Qari Hussain on October 7.<br />There was no word from the Taliban on whether the dreaded commander, best known as a trainer of suicide bombers, had died in the attack.</p>.<p>Qari Hussain is the deputy chief of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and a first cousin of the group's chief Hakimullah Mehsud.He is regarded as being highly skilled in training militants for suicide attacks. Qari Hussain trains such bombers in schools in South Waziristan.<br /><br />He built his ruthless image around one activity – the training and indoctrination of suicide bombers.As a senior commander of the Pakistani Taliban, Qari Hussain takes pride in recruiting individuals to carry out attacks on Pakistani and Western targets.<br /><br />Until recently, Qari Hussain's operations were primarily confined to Pakistan but a video released on May 1 claimed he and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan were behind the foiled car bombing in New York's Times Square by Pakistani-American national Faisal Shahzad.<br />Shahzad was trained at a Hussain-run camp in South Waziristan, where he was brought by a Jaish-e-Muhammad intermediary named Mohammed Rehan.<br /><br />Qari Hussain is a member of the Mehsud tribe which has produced Pakistani Taliban commanders like Hakimullah and Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a drone strike last year.<br /><br />Qari Hussain was linked with terror groups from an early age. He completed his early religious education at a seminary near Kotkai and underwent formal religious training at Jamia Farooqia madrassa in Karachi.<br /><br />As a member of the sectarian Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Qari Hussain was actively involved in that group's activities targeting the minority Shia sect.<br /><br />Following his stint with LeJ, Qari Hussain operated for a short period with Ilyas Kashmiri, a notorious militant commander and leader of the Harkat-ul-Jihad Al-Islam who focussed on attacking Indian forces in Jammu and Kashmir before relocating to Waziristan in 2005.<br />Qari Hussain then joined the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and made the transition from being an unknown commander to a possible contender for the chief of the group.</p>
<p>The drones hit a militant compound in Jungle Khel area near Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan Agency, killing four militants including Qari Hussain on October 7.<br />There was no word from the Taliban on whether the dreaded commander, best known as a trainer of suicide bombers, had died in the attack.</p>.<p>Qari Hussain is the deputy chief of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and a first cousin of the group's chief Hakimullah Mehsud.He is regarded as being highly skilled in training militants for suicide attacks. Qari Hussain trains such bombers in schools in South Waziristan.<br /><br />He built his ruthless image around one activity – the training and indoctrination of suicide bombers.As a senior commander of the Pakistani Taliban, Qari Hussain takes pride in recruiting individuals to carry out attacks on Pakistani and Western targets.<br /><br />Until recently, Qari Hussain's operations were primarily confined to Pakistan but a video released on May 1 claimed he and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan were behind the foiled car bombing in New York's Times Square by Pakistani-American national Faisal Shahzad.<br />Shahzad was trained at a Hussain-run camp in South Waziristan, where he was brought by a Jaish-e-Muhammad intermediary named Mohammed Rehan.<br /><br />Qari Hussain is a member of the Mehsud tribe which has produced Pakistani Taliban commanders like Hakimullah and Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a drone strike last year.<br /><br />Qari Hussain was linked with terror groups from an early age. He completed his early religious education at a seminary near Kotkai and underwent formal religious training at Jamia Farooqia madrassa in Karachi.<br /><br />As a member of the sectarian Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Qari Hussain was actively involved in that group's activities targeting the minority Shia sect.<br /><br />Following his stint with LeJ, Qari Hussain operated for a short period with Ilyas Kashmiri, a notorious militant commander and leader of the Harkat-ul-Jihad Al-Islam who focussed on attacking Indian forces in Jammu and Kashmir before relocating to Waziristan in 2005.<br />Qari Hussain then joined the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and made the transition from being an unknown commander to a possible contender for the chief of the group.</p>