PESHAWAR: The captured spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has told interrogators that the movement’s leader was killed in a U.S. missile strike earlier this month.
U.S. and Pakistani officials have said they are almost certain that Baitullah Mehsud was killed in the Aug. 5 strike.
But several Taliban commanders had told media organizations he is alive.
Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar was arrested Monday evening close to the Afghan border.
Citing an intelligence official who interrogated Umar American news agency said Tuesday that the spokesman had acknowledged that Mehsud was dead.