Pakistan, Aug. 24 -- A former aide to the late Taliban commander Mullah Nazir's group was killed and another person injured by unidentified gunmen in the Doag area of Wana tehsil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Lower South Waziristan, police and rescue officials said on Sunday.

According to Wana Circle's District Superintendent of Police (DSP) Asghar Ali Shah, Muhammad Khalid - a former aide to Mullah Nazir's group - and another person were travelling in their vehicle from Rustam Bazaar Wana to their home in Doag on Saturday evening when unidentified armed men opened fire on them near a cemetery.

Both men sustained bullet wounds in the attack.

Rescue officials said Khalid was critically injured, succumbing to his injuries while being taken to ...