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Hakimullah Mehsud

1979 - 2013

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Hakimullah Mehsud (Pashto/Urdu: حکیم اللہ محسود‎; c. 1978-1981 − 1 November 2013), born Jamshed Mehsud (جمشید محسود‎) and also known as Zulfiqar Mehsud (ذو الفقار محسود), was a Pakistani militant who was the second emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, elected to the post on 22 August 2009. It was confirmed by TTP that he was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan on 1 November 2013. He had previously been deputy to commander Baitullah Mehsud and one of the leaders of the militant group Fedayeen al-Islam prior to the elder Mehsud's death in a CIA drone missile strike, and in TTP he had been commander in the Khyber, Kurram and Orakzai agencies of Pakistan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hakimullah Mehsud has received more than 280,006 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Hakimullah Mehsud is the 269th most popular extremist (down from 222nd in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 133rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Pakistani Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Hakimullah Mehsud ranks 269 out of 283. Before him are Satam al-Suqami, Mohammed Bijeh, Khader Adnan, Hamza al-Ghamdi, Amy Fisher, and Waleed al-Shehri. After him are Colin Pitchfork, Beverley Allitt, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Atefeh Sahaaleh, Ajmal Kasab, and Monster of Florence.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Hakimullah Mehsud ranks 731. Before him are Emil Dimitriev, David Healy, Jan Hernych, Mariana Klaveno, Slava Medvedenko, and Cédric Kanté. After him are Igor Pavlov, Anders Danielsen Lie, Rashad Evans, Johan Santana, Bernice Liu, and Louay Chanko. Among people deceased in 2013, Hakimullah Mehsud ranks 540. Before him are Rituparno Ghosh, Jean Pickering, Thompson Oliha, Hervé Boussard, Burry Stander, and Soraya Jiménez. After him are Besik Kudukhov, Yasuhiro Yamada, Vince Flynn, Lázaro Rivas, Sushmita Banerjee, and Todd Bennett.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud ranks 165 out of 217. Before him are Lal Bokhari (1909), Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (1973), Fahmida Mirza (1956), Hina Rabbani Khar (1977), Noor Alam (1929), and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (1988). After him are Hina Jilani (1953), Rubin Okotie (1987), Wasim Akram (1966), Kamila Shamsie (1973), Prithipal Singh (1932), and Mukhtar Mai (1972).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Pakistan

Among extremists born in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud ranks 4. Before him are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (1964), Javed Iqbal (1961), and Baitullah Mehsud (1974). After him are Ajmal Kasab (1987), and Fazlullah (1974).

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