Mufti Noor Wali Massood

1. Former Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Leader:
TTP founder Baitullah Mehsud (August 2009 killed)
Mullah Fazlullah Killed in a Drone attack in Kunar Province, Afghanistan (20180612)
Mullah Noor Wali (20180623)
Deputy:
Mufti Mazhim, aka Mufti Hafzullah (20180613)
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesperson:
Mohammad Khurasani (20180623)

2. Previous Functions Mullah Noor Wali:

Successor Khan Sajna Deobandi Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) (20180214)

3. Biodata:
Mufti Noor Wali Massood alias Abu Mansoor Asim, Noor Wali Mehsud Mullah Noor Wali was born 1978 in Tiarza, South Waziristan, Pakistan and hails from Gorgoray area of Sararogha tehsil and belongs to Mechikhel, a sub-clan of the Mehsud tribe. He was a Deobandi seminary student and remained a qazi (judge) of Sharia court established by the founder chief of TTP, Baitullah Mehsud. The sources said Wali had taken part in attacks in Waziristan and Afghanistan. He also served as a teacher at a religious seminary in Gorgoray area for two years. He received his religious education from seminaries in Faisalabad and Gujranwala in Punjab province and Karachi in Sindh.
 

Mufti Noor Wali joined the Mehsud Taliban in 2003 and fought against the Pakistani security forces when then-military ruler Pervez Musharraf deployed regular Pakistani troops inside Waziristan for the first time since the country’s independence. He led the ambush of Pakistani troops at Tayar Manza in March 2004. Due to his religious credentials, he was once assigned the job of judge. Following the rules of the TTP’s self-styled justice, he once even awarded a three-day jail punishment to the group’s chief Baitullah Mehsud, locals say. Besides looking after the Taliban operations in Karachi, Noor Wali is also heading the publication department of the TTP and authored a 688-page book, The Mehsud Revolution, in 2017.
 

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has for the first time claimed responsibility for the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in a new book in written by Taliban leader Abu Mansoor Asim Mufti Noor Wali.

Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi shortly after she addressed an election rally on December 27, 2007 and members of the then military regime of General Pervez Musharraf had blamed the TTP for it. The outfit has so far maintained its silence over the assassination.
 

No group had claimed responsibility for Bhutto’s murder until the claim in “Inqilab Mehsood South Waziristan – From British Raj to American Imperialism.” The book says suicide bombers Bilal, who was also known as Saeed and Ikramullah were tasked to carry out the attack on Bhutto on December 27.“Bomber Bilal first fired at Benazir Bhutto from his pistol and the bullet hit her neck. Then he detonated his explosive jacket and blew himself up among the participants of the procession,” Daily Times on Monday quoted the book as saying.

Special Representative on Afghanistan Asif Durrani has said Islamabad has evidence that the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is getting money from India through Afghan proxies, estimating that 5,000 to 6,000 TTP militants have taken shelter in Afghanistan. “If we include their families, then the number goes up to 70,000,” Durrani said on Saturday while speaking at a programme hosted by an Islamabad-based think tank on the Afghan peace process.(20140317)
 

A rumor and claim racing around Pakistani and Afghan social media that Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud was the target of a Drone Attack near Abdulhaq Square in Kabul, the TTP’s emir since 2018. Wali was reportedly killed along with potential successors Qari Saifullah Mehsud and Khalid Mehsud. Taliban officials have rejected that, saying Mehsud was neither in Kabul nor elsewhere in Afghanistan. No evidence has been made public to prove his death. In the absence of confirmation, his fate remains uncertain. The airstrike coincided with two powerful explosions, followed by heavy gunfire, in Kabul’s eastern District 8. Residents reported widespread panic as the blasts rattled nearby neighborhoods. Unverified social media posts suggested the sounds of aircraft overhead, sparking speculation about further airstrikes. The strike in Kabul took place one day after the TTP ambushed a Pakistani military unit in Arakzai and killed 11 troops, including two officers. (20251011)