Hakeemullah's dead - Taliban confirmed

KARACHI: The Taliban based in Orakzai Agency confirmed on Tuesday that Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakeemullah Mehsud is dead.
However, Alam Tariq the offiicial Taliban spokesman has not yet made a statement.
Sources said that Maulvi Noor Jamal has been nominated as Mehsud's succesor. 
           
Government officials too have confirmed his death and have said that he was killed in a Shaktoi drone strike last month.
American and Pakistani officials had been saying Mehsud was dead since the past few weeks.